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