The findings demonstrate that Australia's earliest known human population consumed a range of plant foods, including those that required processing.
The authors say the findings demonstrate that Australia's earliest known human population consumed a range of plant foods, including those that required processing.
"The First Australians had a great deal of botanical knowledge and this was one of the things that allowed them to adapt to and thrive in this new environment," she said."They were able to guarantee access to carbohydrates, fat and even protein by applying this knowledge, as well as technological innovation and labor, to the gathering and processing of Australian plant foods."
Some experts have suggested that the early movements of humans through the islands of Southeast Asia into Sahul were facilitated by access to high-calorie foods."These results suggest that dietary breadth underpinned the success of early modern human populations in this region, with the expenditure of labor on the processing of plants guaranteeing reliable access to nutrients in new environments," the authors wrote in the study.
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