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вторник, 20 марта 2018 г.

Fish accounted for surprisingly large part of the Stone Age diet

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New research at Lund University in Sweden can now show what Stone Age people actually ate in southern Scandinavia 10,000 years ago. The importance of fish in the diet has proven to be greater than expected. So, if you want to follow a Paleo diet, you could quite simply eat a lot of fish.


Osteologists Adam Boethius and Torbjörn Ahlström have studied the importance of various protein sources in the human diet across three millennia, from around 10,500 to 7,500 years ago. This was done by combining chemical analyses of human bones from over 80 of the the oldest human skeletons discovered in Scandinavia with osteological analyses of animal bone material.


The study is part of a doctoral thesis that has used various methods to examine the significance of fishing for the people who settled in southern Scandinavia during the millennia after the ice from the last ice age had melted away. Read more.


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