Ancient Evidence Challenges Paleo Diet, Showing Humans Long Ate ‘Processed Foods’

Ancient Evidence Challenges Paleo Diet, Showing Humans Long Ate ‘Processed Foods’

An image of early Homo sapiens from Neanderthal-Museum, Mettmann. Credit: Neanderthal-Museum, Mettmann / CC BY-SA 4.0 A recent study is challenging the popular image tied to the Paleo diet by revealing that early humans were not strict meat-eaters but relied heavily on a wide range of processed plant foods. Researchers say humans consumed carbohydrates and fats from both plant and animal sources long before the development of agriculture. Publis…

Not-so-Paleo: We've been 'plant-loving foodies' as long as we've been hunters

Plants have been part of our diet as long as meat has, with new evidence showing that Neanderthals, early Homo sapiens and even earlier Homo hominins were using and processing starches, grass seeds, nuts, fruits, sedges and tubers hundreds of thousands of years before the supposed “Broad Spectrum Revolution" took place.Continue ReadingCategory: Biology, ScienceTags: Australian National University, University of Toronto, Neanderthal, Archeology, …

Early humans ate processed plant foods long before farming, new study shows

Early humans were not the single-minded meat hunters often imagined in popular “Paleo” narratives. A new study published in the Journal of Archaeological Research argues that our ancestors were skilled at gathering, processing, and eating a wide range of plants long before the first farms appeared. Researchers from the Australian National University and the University […]