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Evidence that northern hunter gatherers ate mushrooms

8 August 2015 by Alan

Mushrooms

Archaeologists working at the El Mirón cave in Cantabria, Spain, have found evidence that our Paleolithic predecessors, who lived between 10 000 and 15 000 years ago, ate fungi such as bolete mushrooms. Bolete mushrooms are widespread in Europe and the northern hemisphere.

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