Re: Negau

From: tgpedersen
Message: 60530
Date: 2008-09-30

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
> >> =======
> >> I suppose people realized cereals could be eaten before
> >> agriculture came into being.
> >> Arnaud
> >> ============
> >
> > No, people realized cereals could be eaten only several millenia
> > after agriculture came into being. In the meanwhile, it became a
> > problem to find places to store the ever growing harvests which
> > were considered inedible.
> > Torsten
>
> ============
> And what did the poor guys eat for three millions years ?
That's a long time to wait for dinner. I don't think I could do that.

> They licked stones and drank hot water !?
I wouldn't know. I'm not French.

> Your statement is absurd.
Thank you.

> I suppose some inferences can be made about what people ate
> with the marks left on the teeth and maybe isotopic contents of
> their bones.
The stones people ate in the stone age left very big marks on their
teeth. Actually that is the criteria mostly used for dating skulls: if
they have no teeth they must be Stone Age.


Torsten