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The actual paper mentions: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)30703-6 https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)...
by acqq 8y ago
The actual paper mentions:
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)30703-6 https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)...
"major proportion of plant reads belong to the
species
Pteridium aquilinum
subsp.
aquilinum
and to members
of the genus
Triticum
"
"the
Triticum
reads were
more specifically assigned to chloroplast genomes of
Triticum
monococcum
(einkorn) and
Triticum urartu"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einkorn_wheat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einkorn_wheat
Wheat.
It seem the Iceman not only ate deer mean but also... wheat, so probably some kind of bread.
Also, for the context: the Iceman lived "between 3400 and 3100 BCE." It can be that he lived at the same time as Egypt already wrote about its first pharaohs (c. 3150 BCE)! And Egypt's key for success for millennia was in its... wheat production.
Moreover, the "Iceman" got frozen in ice by accident, but at that time the last ice age was also over for cca 5000 years.
- pvaldes 8y agoYou can make a bread using braken flour. Is toxic at long term, but canker is not a problem if you are in a hurry and do not plan to live more than 50 years in any case. Probably they would combine Triticum and Pteridium together making a more palatable product. Many things could point to stolen food and a harsh conditions. He was probably desperate for food. For a human eating fat regularly, he was very slim.