A surprising food may have been a staple of the real Paleo diet: rotten meat
Historical accounts of Indigenous peoples’ diets have archaeologists rethinking ancient menus
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Rotten meat, along with a bounty of other understudied foods, may have been part of the diet of ancient hominids, anthropologists are discovering.
Emile Holmewood