My bad!

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/19589985/

On Tuesday, December 29, 2015, Allan Balliett <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Wayne
>
> Thanks for the post. Unfortunately, none of the links lead to the paper
> nor can I google such work by the referenced scientist
>
> Probably just me, but, can anybody help?
>
> Thanks
>
> Allan
>
> On Tuesday, December 29, 2015, Tracey Baldrey <[log in to unmask]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml',[log in to unmask]);>> wrote:
>
>> That's very surprising and interesting to read.  Many thanks Wayne for
>> passing that on.
>>
>> Best wishes
>> Tracey
>> Netherlands
>>
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>> Thu, 1 Feb 2007 10:01:42 -0500 From
>> http://www.mcmaster.ca/research/sciencecity/globe-article_poinar.htm
>> ."It's one of the biggest crap deposits known," says Vaughn Bryant, an
>> anthropologist at Texas A&M University who led the excavation of the Hinds
>> Cave deposit in the mid-1970s and provided Dr. Poinar with the samples.
>>
>> The cave, an enormous, very dry, cliff-face rock shelter, housed
>> generations of hunter-gatherers for 9,000 years. The site has yielded more
>> than 2,000 cow-patty-shaped human coprolites.
>>
>> The shape of these coprolites is due to the "astronomical" amounts of
>> fibre in them, Dr. Bryant says. He estimates that the Hinds Cave
>> inhabitants ate
>> 15 times the daily fibre intake of present-day North Americans, mostly in
>> the form of roasted desert plants, including agave and yucca.
>>
>> Using mitochondrial DNA analysis, Dr. Poinar showed that three coprolites
>> belonged to separate individuals. And he confirmed Dr. Bryant's microscopic
>> analysis of the contents: These paleo-peoples were eating well.
>>
>> Through genetic reconstruction, he showed that in the 24 to 48 hours
>> before relieving himself at the back of the shelter, one Hinds Cave
>> resident had eaten a veritable Thanksgiving feast. The coprolite included
>> evidence of pronghorn antelope, cottontail rabbit, packrat, squirrel and
>> eight types of wild plants. ....
>>
>> How exceptional is that site? Were other paleolithics eating less fibre
>> than we do and less that one-tenth or one-fifteenth of that of the people
>> of this site? Not likely. More likely is that the paleolithic diet
>> generally contained multiple times the amount of fibre that ours does.
>>
>> How does the above compare to 150 mg per day? There following article
>> suggests up to 300 g per day (yes, grams, not miligrams):
>> https://www.paleohacks.com/fiber/paleolithic-fiber-consumption-989
>> (Sorry if the latter artricle was already part of this thread, or one of
>> your sources.)
>>
>> Wayne Wynn
>> Burnaby, BC
>>
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