[ExI] Paleo/Primal health

[Dave Sill]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Dan <dan_ust at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Just out of curiousity, before agriculture there was some grain consumption, no?
> I mean consumption of wild grains gathered around the Middle East... I'm not
> sure what the evidence is for this, but I'm thinking someone must have been
> eating grains before they were domesticated. Is there any information on this?

Here are a couple links:

http://thespartandiet.blogspot.com/2010/10/its-official-grains-were-part-of.html
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/12/17/tech-archaeology-grain-africa-cave.html

So it obviously happened. It's very hard to tell how widespread it
was, how important it was, how seasonal it was, what percentage of
caloric intake it provided, etc. Interestingly, it's still being done
by the Ojibwe: http://www.bineshiiwildrice.com.

-Dave