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From: JTEM <jtem01@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Starch-rich plant foods 780,000 y ago: Evidence from Acheulian
 percussive stone tools
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 03:00:13 -0500
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On 1/13/25 1:14 AM, Primum Sapienti wrote:

> Abstract
> In contrast to animal foods, wild plants
> often require long, multistep processing
> techniques that involve significant
> cognitive skills and advanced toolkits to
> perform. These costs are thought to have
> hindered how hominins used these foods
> and delayed their adoption into our diets.
> Through the analysis of starch grains
> preserved on basalt anvils and percussors,
> we demonstrate that a wide variety of
> plants were processed by Middle Pleistocene
> hominins at the site of Gesher Benot
> Ya’aqov in Israel, at least 780,000 y ago.
> These results further indicate the advanced
> cognitive abilities of our early ancestors,
> including their ability to collect plants
> from varying distances and from a wide range
> of habitats and to mechanically process them
> using percussive tools.

They also found tobacco & cocaine in ancient
Egyptian mummies:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226721575_Presence_of_drugs_in_different_tissues_of_an_egyptian_mummy

My point is that the "Findings" aren't as important
as the underlying science. In the case of the
Egyptian mummies, for example, it's ludicrous to
assume that the findings are correct. The tests
results are solid, they simply do not mean what
people insisted they meant.

Something that /May/ be true on a two month old
sample, or is /Likely/ to be true, isn't necessary
true on a 2,000 year old sample... forget about a
780,000 year old sample.

More importantly:  WHY are they doing this? This
isn't science, it's WokeTardia. We know they were
meat eaters. It looks more like politics than
science...




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