Very interesting....................  I would be interested to know if we
can indeed include lentils in our diet.   I love lentils.....

trish

On Mon, 6 Dec 1999 11:43:51 +0100 Amadeus Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
> Hm... in my recent posting i forgot to include the reference for the
> paragraph i attempted to translate:
>
> It's from a fine and well researched book on the origins of
> used plants
> (in Germany but applicable and treating much of Europe and Asia).
> (1):                  Nutzpflanzen in Deutschland.
>                       Kulturgeschichte und Biologie.
>                       Udelgard Körber-Grohne
>                       Theiss Verlag
>                       page 358 f.
>
> I wrote: ...
> I may attempt to translate a little excerpt of my reference (1):
>
> "The very oldest lentils have been found in the cave Franchthi
> (Peleponnes)
> in the old-stone-age layers (paleolithicum, 20000-7000 b.c).
>
> They are from wildly grown lentils, witch the humans collected
> during the last
> ice age, or about its end.
>
> Together with wild cereals and seeds of other wild plants.
>
> A similar finding  of gathered plants can be found in the same cave
> in the
>
> levels above from the middle stone age
> (mesolithicum, abt. 7000-6000 b.c.) ..."
>
>
>
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