A very interesting discovery led to the establishment of what Stone Age men ate. These common ancestors of ours, whose fossil remains were found in the Spanish caves of Serinyà and later dated as dating back to a period between 27,000 and 22,000 years ago. That is the Upper Paleolithic (Gravettian period).

The remains of the four men found in the caves are therefore placed at the time of the Last Glacial Maximum, the last important glaciation that favored the movement towards areas with a more moderate climate.

Through a new methodology based on the analysis of certain amino acids fixed in the bones, a new international research team was able to understand the type of diet they were on at the time.
Discovering an important detail.

That’s what the Stone Age men ate

In fact, until now it was assumed that the Homo who had reached the coastal areas after the diasporas had a diet that included fish or shellfish . And that only the scarcity of finds of their life in the coastal areas had not so far allowed us to have a confirmation of this hypothesis. Instead, the researchers found no trace of marine components in the bones.

On the contrary, what they discovered just excludes the hypothesis that fish and molluscs were an integral part of the diet of these Sapiens. The new method of bone analysis has led to discovering their daily diet down to the smallest detail.

Their diet consisted of vegetables and small animals, “land prey” like rabbits.
The remains of even the most coastal Sapiens led to the idea that these Homo did not have fishing as a common, if anything, fortuitous practice. And that they would rather take advantage of flourishing vegetation and small prey as daily food.