对世界上最古老的面粉的发现表明,一直被认为几乎全部以肉类为食的穴居人的饮食其实比我们想得要均衡得多。研究人员以前大体上认为,在旧石器时代的欧洲,人类的食物几乎全部由动物的肉和脂肪组成,只有相当少的蔬菜类食物。而如今,科学家在意大利、俄罗斯和捷克的考古地点利用光学显微镜和电子显微镜发现了上面沾有面粉的3万年前 The discovery of the oldest flour in the world shows that neandertarians, who have long been considered almost exclusively for meat, actually eat far more balancedly than we thought. In the past, the researchers generally assumed that in the Paleolithic Europe almost all of human food consisted of animal meat and fat, with only a relatively small amount of vegetable food. Today, scientists in Italy, Russia and the Czech archeological sites using light and electron microscopy found that the top of the flour with 30,000 years ago