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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