By now the story of how our ancestors ate is taking on ever more evanescent contours.

In any discussion between “carnivores” (it would be better to say omnivores) and “vegans” there is a long dissertation on our teeth, on canines, on the lack of herbivorous stomachs, and even on the opposable thumb.

All this  to get to know how primitive man ate .

And from here, with a certain lack of logical consequentiality, how we should eat.

I could understand if it was discovered that primitive men, particularly pre-Neolithic, were Superman with the club , men of steel who knew no cold, hunger, flab or disease.

But in reality those who try to establish an original diet do so with the intent of understanding which diet could bring them closer to a state of nature.

Something instinctive and genuine that keeps him away from the health problems that often arise from industrially processed foods and environmental factors.

In short, if the attempt is legitimate and noble, the problem is when the history and even the scientific evidence are distorted in order to support a thesis.

That the perfect and natural diet exists.
Thesis very dear to the followers of the Paleolithic diet.
Now, however, yet another study renders the Paleolithic diet unfounded , one of the diets that has been most talked about in recent times .

PALEOLITHIC DIET: WHAT IT IS

The Paleolithic diet is characterized by the absence of cereals, sugars or legumes, and by the massive presence of meat, fish, eggs or nuts, but without any choice of intensive type.

Only local, farm, organic products, with grazing animals and which feed only on grass.

In short, the Paleolithic diet has never been a diet of only foods yes and no foods, but the attempt to arrive at the natural diet of the Paleolithic man.
Which, according to paleo theorists, was far from both any type of cultivated cereal and any farmed product.
Instead, it seems that this was not the case.

PALEOLITHIC DIET: THE STUDY AGAINST

An Italian study disproves this bucolic but fascinating view of primitive men.
And they explain that already thirty thousand years ago primitive man consumed legumes and cereals.

Researchers have identified an archaeological area, Grotta Paglicci, whose inhabitants 32 thousand years ago cultivated vegetables and cereals. Yes, cereals.
You got it right.

All vegetables were treated with four processes , with an organization that was thought possible only many years later.

Men before the Neolithic were able to eat wild legumes and even cereals, including an ancestor of oats, and subject them to rudimentary processing.