Preliminary investigation of the plant macro-remains from Dolni Vestonice II, and its implications for the role of plant foods in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Europe. From: Antiquity | Date: March 1, 1994| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1994 Antiquity Publications, Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

The diet of the hunter-gatherers of the European Pleistocene is a subject of intense debate because of the scarcity of reliable data during this period. Of particular interest is the importance of plant foods to pre-agrarian populations. Analysis of plant materials collected from the Dolni Vestonice II site in the Czech Republic using scanning electron microscopy shows that plant foods probably comprised a significant part of early man's diet. Further investigations of prehistoric sites using anatomical techniques and scanning electron microscopy are recommended.

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