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Starch-Rich Plant Foods Played Central Role in Hominin Diet 780,000 Years Ago


Archaeologists say they have extracted a wide variety of starch grains from stone tools found at an early Middle Pleistocene site in Israel. These include acorns, grass grains, water chestnuts, yellow water lily rhizomes, and legume seeds.

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