> -----Original Message-----
> William wrote:
> ...
> Postulate: yams were a weapon; get your neighbours to eat them, when 
> they
> get fat and slow kill them and take over their territory. A 
> paleo version  
> of the Darwin award.
> 
> When I first joined this list, there was a member named Amadeus, who
> believed that tubers were the staple of paleoman. Amadedus was 
> fiercely opposed by Andrew. Their squabbles were entertaining. Maybe 
> worth looking in the archives, if interested. IIRC Andrew won.

Thanks William,

I had found Amadeus' posts about yams, but didn't find Andrew's refutations.
Do you have Andrew's full address he used in the forum? I tried searching
for "Andrew" in the "author's address" and "search for" fields, but didn't
find much.


> Tom Bri wrote: ... Plenty of skeletons have been found with tooth
> and bone deformities indicating periods of starvation. During 
> those times they would have eaten anything close to edible, 
> and figured out how to make the inedible taste good. No 
> different from today in that. And probably, once they figured 
> it out, they kept on doing it. Toss a few bakers [yams] on the 
> coals, wait a while, sprinkle a little wind-dried sea-salt 
> ;--) on them.......
> 

What time periods and skeletal remains are you referring to, Tom?