Tue, Feb-28-06, 16:10
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Plan: antivegan,was subzerocarb
Stats: 200/187/175
BF:27%/19%/12%
Progress: 52%
Location: Flyover Zone
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Originally Posted by Nancy LC
I don't think you can definitively state what the Paleo diet was because we don't have that much evidence that lasted for 10,000 years. Bones stick around for a long, long time, but discarded vegetable matter tends to break down pretty quickly. Probably the best way to figure out what they ate is by looking at what people who have had limited contact with civilization are (or were) eating now (or earlier in the century).
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But if you look to recent "hunter-gatherers", you will not be seeing the ways of the pure "hunters" that came before. And, it is possible to get this evidence that you say is so elusive. There is technology that is being used right now that makes it possible to know a lot about the past, based on examination of sites. Read this. I think Bear is onto something. And that is we were first "hunters" and then became "hunter-gatherers" and then became "gatherers" and then most of us became slaves and then we shopped at the A&P and now everyone just goes to Wal-Mart! 
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