Cavemen's diet really did just consist of eating meat, researchers claim

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A current trend in health and fitness circles at the moment is to follow the ‘Paleolithic diet’ also known as the paleo diet or just caveman diet.However, new research has shown that actual cavemen ate meat and pretty much nothing else. Researchers analysed teeth left over from our ancestors and found out that they liked to snack out on things like reindeer and horse. And that’s about it. There were some occasional plants, of course. But mostly just other animals.

Like modern humans, Neanderthals are members of the Homo genus. They inhabited Europe and western Asia between 230,000 and 29,000 years ago. To explain the exceptionally high nitrogen isotope ratios, Dr Jaouen and her colleagues decided to use a new isotope technique. She explained that compound-specific isotope analyses allow to separately analyse the amino acids contained in the collagen. Some of the amino acid isotope compositions are influenced by environmental factors and the isotope ratios of the food eaten. Other amino acid isotope ratios are in addition influenced by the trophic level.

 

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