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Cavemen Were Making Porridge 32,000 Years Ago

Apparently cavemen enjoyed porridge just as much as we do today!

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Before you decide to go on a paleo-diet, (the controversial carb-free fad diet which taps into an urge for simpler food and lifestyle like the paleolithic people) here’s a side-serve of archaeology: stone-age people ate oats 32,000 years ago, much before farming took root!

The University of Florence in Italy which made this discovery says, this is the earliest known human consumption of oats.

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