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Thirty thousand-year-old evidence of plant food
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Evidence of starch grains from various wild plants on the surfaces of grinding tools at the sites of Bilancino II, Kostenki 16–Uglyanka, and Pavlov VI suggest that vegetal food processing was a common practice, widespread across Europe from at least ~30,000 y ago.About:
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Microfossils in calculus demonstrate consumption of plants and cooked foods in Neanderthal diets (Shanidar III, Iraq; Spy I and II, Belgium)
TL;DR: Direct evidence is reported for Neanderthal consumption of a variety of plant foods, in the form of phytoliths and starch grains recovered from dental calculus of Neanderthal skeletons from Shanidar Cave, Iraq, and Spy Cave, Belgium, suggesting an overall sophistication in Neanderthal dietary regimes.
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Preparation and application of starch nanoparticles for nanocomposites: A review
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Recent advances in polysaccharide bio-based flocculants
TL;DR: In this review, current trends in preparation and chemical modification of polysaccharide bio-based flocculants and their flocculation performance are discussed and aspects including mechanisms of flocculations, biosynthesis, classification, purification and characterization, chemical modification, and the effect of physicochemical factors on floccculating activity are discussed.
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Paleolithic human exploitation of plant foods during the last glacial maximum in North China.
TL;DR: Light is shed on the deep history of the broad spectrum subsistence strategy characteristic of late Pleistocene north China before the origins of agriculture, which helped Paleolithic people understand the properties of certain types of flora and eventually led to the plants' domestication.
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Exploiting the Brachypodium Tool Box in cereal and grass research.
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TL;DR: It is suggested that there remains an urgent need to employ reverse genetic and functional genomic approaches to identify the functionality of key genetic elements, which could be employed subsequently in plant breeding programmes; and a requirement for a Pooideae reference genome to aid assembling large pooid genomes.
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Processing of wild cereal grains in the Upper Palaeolithic revealed by starch grain analysis
TL;DR: The earliest direct evidence for human processing of grass seeds, including barley and possibly wheat, in the form of starch grains recovered from a ground stone artefact from the Upper Palaeolithic site of Ohalo II in Israel is reported.
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Isotopic evidence for the diets of European Neanderthals and early modern humans
TL;DR: The isotopic evidence indicates that in all cases Neanderthals were top-level carnivores and obtained all, or most, of their dietary protein from large herbivores.
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Cooking as a biological trait
TL;DR: No human foragers have been recorded as living without cooking, and people who choose a 'raw-foodist' life-style experience low energy and impaired reproductive function, suggesting that cooking may be obligatory for humans.
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Mousterian vegetal food in Kebara Cave, Mt. Carmel
TL;DR: The authors reconstructs the vegetal diet of the Middle Paleolithic humans in Kebara cave (Mt Carmel, Israel) on the basis of a large collection of charred seeds and other vegetal food remains uncovered during the excavation.
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The evolution of hominin diets : integrating approaches to the study of palaeolithic subsistence
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review of the early hominin diet in the Middle and Upper Paleolithic of Europe, focusing on the effects of human diet on the human ability to kill at a distance.