Paul Getty wrote:

 > We know, just by the fact
 >that grains were domesticated, that wild grains were utilized for a long
 >time before domestication and complex processing, by people that were only
 >occassionally using them.  Ancient peoples could not just start processing
 >and domesticating grains out of the clear blue.  It would have been a
 >process of thousands of years, beginning with wild grains being a small part
 >of the diet.

Correct. The evidence is they started gathering them 17,000 years ago, and
started growing them 11,000 years ago. The 17,000 years is still too short
to consider these a Paleolithic food.

Grains cause so many health problems I don't understand why people are
coming up with arguments to justify them in the diet. See Ron Hoggan's book
Dangerous Grains.

Don.