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Related: About this forumAncient Traces of Burnt Food Reveal a Surprising Truth About The Paleo Diet
Tl;Dr: They'd discovered cuisine and they ATE CARBS.
My team's analysis of the oldest charred food remains ever found show that jazzing up your dinner is a human habit dating back at least 70,000 years.
Imagine ancient people sharing a meal. You would be forgiven for picturing people tearing into raw ingredients or maybe roasting meat over a fire as that is the stereotype.
But our new study showed both Neanderthals and Homo sapiens had complex diets involving several steps of preparation, and took effort with seasoning and using plants with bitter and sharp flavors.
https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-traces-of-burnt-food-reveal-a-surprising-truth-about-the-paleo-diet The article contains specific info about food prep and combining and is worth the read for food nerds.
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Ancient Traces of Burnt Food Reveal a Surprising Truth About The Paleo Diet (Original Post)
Warpy
Nov 2022
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Wait a second, they are just studying the food that the Neanderthals threw out!
Chainfire
Nov 2022
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DBoon
(22,397 posts)1. "Please pass the Grey Poupon"
Warpy
(111,339 posts)2. according to this, they probably did grind mustard seed
and maybe even mixed it with some alcoholic fermented fruit for what we'd recognize as "gore-may" mustard.
Chainfire
(17,636 posts)3. Wait a second, they are just studying the food that the Neanderthals threw out!
You have to wonder what the stuff they ate was like.
Warpy
(111,339 posts)4. They'd also studied the scuzz on their teeth and knew the diet was varied
Humans are notoriously messy eaters and these little nubbins of food got swept into the hearth where the following day's fire would render them odorless. The samples just gave them an idea of the diet, which turned out to be bread and porridge as well as the other foodstuffs. The real surprise seems to be that it was seasoned food.