Yes I think so too that storing for months laters at scale started much later. But it probably also made sense to collect them and store them before they germi

Yes I think so too that storing for months laters at scale started much later. But it probably also made sense to collect them and store them before they germinate into a plant at least a few of them, otherwise then we can't eat them anymore. Before moving around, they probably grabbed a bunch of them in a simple basket to have some food later in the day in an unknown place. Most importantly, tubers are available at a much wider range of latitudes than tropical fruit. Chimps cant go very far away from the equator due to that, unlike hominids who have developed the enzimes to digest cooked starch.