On Tue, 3 Nov 1998 06:56:09 -0500, Don Wiss <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>Amadeus wrote:
>
>>Allergy-specialists will be able add you a bunch of
>>additional common stuffs (soy, hazel, strawberry, pig for example).
>
>There he is again getting an anti-meat comment slipped in.

Yes and i won't stop telling the truth just because some holy
cow seems to be in danger.
Pig - especially pig's fat is one of the best known allergy triggering
food items.
Why bother? This farmed pigs aren't paleo anyway.

>>Via some postings in paleofood and paleodiet and at other places I've
learned
>>that grains actually *had* been used in paleolithic times
>>(though not in a big percantage 9.

>Uh, no. I have seen nothing that shows grains were consumed prior to the
>Near Easterner's collection of them starting 17,000 years ago.
I was thinking of ramapithecus, a primate (probably not in the human
anchestors line) which i have read to have been a seed consument.
And of the reports of Ruediger in paleodiet and James Crockers
report from the desert indians.
Using as much food resources as possible the versatile hominids might
probably - or possibly if you prefer that- used that grass seeds
too, at times when they were available.

> Then they
>started farming them 10,000 years ago. But those of us descended from
>Northern Europeans would have started on them much later.
There's a discussion, if the first Northern Europeans
hunters and gatherers since 40kBC have only adopted
the idea of agriculture, or if they were replaced by immigrants from
near east (who we are now) o
r if they did mix.
This month i got an excavation report from a early neolithic village
which shows a mixing of two different pysiognomies of humans in the
same
village. Bones of a more robust human burried differently from
another (more "mainstream") type.
I understand that the main criticism on wheat is, that it is used
intensely
in middle europe since only 300 generations (4200 BC).

> Plus, grasses as
>a form of plant life are fairly recent to the earth.
I've read too, that the one-year lasting grasses are relative recent
developements of nature.
Could you please tell since when grasses are on earth, on your
records?

Amadeus