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El consumo de semillas de hierba mozambiqueña durante la Edad de Piedra Media
1Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4, Canada.
Science (New York, N.Y.)
|December 19, 2009
Resumen
El primer Homo sapiens consumió semillas de hierba, incluido el sorgo, hace al menos 105.000 años en el sur de África. Esto desafía las creencias anteriores sobre la búsqueda de alimento en el Pleistoceno y la irrelevancia de la recolección de semillas para las dietas de los primeros homínidos.
Área de la Ciencia:
- Arqueología Arqueología.
- La paleoantropología es la paleoantropología.
- Ciencias de la Nutrición Ciencias de la Nutrición
Sus antecedentes:
- El seguimiento arqueológico del consumo de plantas con almidón y las primeras prácticas culinarias en las dietas de los homínidos ha sido un desafío.
- Las opiniones convencionales sugieren que los recolectores del sur de África del Pleistoceno no priorizaron la recolección de semillas debido a las dificultades de procesamiento y un enfoque en raíces, frutas y nueces.
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