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Preliminary investigation of the plant macro-remains from Dolní Věstonice II, and its implications for the role of plant foods in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2015

Sarah L. R. Mason ,
Jon G. Hather  and
Gordon C. Hillman
Sarah L. R. Mason
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 31–34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY, England
Jon G. Hather
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 31–34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY, England
Gordon C. Hillman
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 31–34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY, England
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Abstract

For the most part the Pleistocene, and even the earliest post-glacial, is a blank when it comes to evidence of humans eating plants. No wonder the old men's stories, of chaps who hunt great mammals and eat their meat, still dominate our unthinking visions of hunter-gathering in that period. Some real evidence, slight though it is, from a classic European Upper Palaeolithic site provides a more balanced view.

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Antiquity , Volume 68 , Issue 258 , March 1994 , pp. 48 - 57
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1994

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