Breakfast of champions cavemen

Stone Age humans consumed toasted wheat and barley cereal during the Paleolithic era 23,000 years ago, according to a recent study.

The finding, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, pushes back the inclusion of grains in the human diet by 10,000 years.

Evidence of over 90,000 plant remains, including the toasted wild wheat and barley, was found at an Israeli site called Ohalo on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Many of the plant remains consisted of very tiny grass seeds. The edible grasses included brome, foxtail, and alkali.

Posted by David on June 29, 2004 3:50 PM