Examining the Diets of Prehistoric People
One of the most important pieces of information about a prehistoric people is the nature of their diet.This information is especially relevant when trying to answer questions related to the origins and development of agriculture.Archaeologists can approach diet in a number of ways.They can study diet indirectly by figuring out what people might have eaten based on what was available in their natural environment.For example,deer,duck,turkey,and fish are known to have been available in what is now the northeastern United States for about 7,000 years.A hunting-and-gathering people in this area are likely to have used such resources at one time or another.The weakness of this method of reasoning is that we cannot know with certainty which of the available foods were most important in the diet.
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