What did people in the Stone Age eat before the advent of farming around 10,000 years ago? A long-held stereotype one that's influenced modern fad diets is that ancient humans hunted large animals and chowed down on mammoth steak.
Rest of World News: NEW DELHI: A groundbreaking study has shed light on the dietary habits of the Iberomaurusian culture, a group of hunter-gatherers who inhabited parts .
The advent of agriculture roughly 11,500 years ago in the Middle East was a milestone for humankind - a revolution in diet and lifestyle that moved beyond the way hunter-gatherers had existed since Homo sapiens arose more than 300,000 years ago in Africa. While the scarcity of well-preserved human remains from the period preceding this turning point has made the diet of pre-agricultural people a bit of a mystery, new research is now providing insight into this question. Scientists reconstructed the dietary practices of one such culture from North Africa, surprisingly documenting a heavily plant-based diet.
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