The Role of Plant Foods in the Evolution and Dispersal of Early Humans: A Perspec- tive from Across the Wallace Line
Journal: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte
Year: 2022

In recent years, new evidence for the early use of plant foods has challenged the stereotype of the meat-eating Paleolithic. Whilst often making up the smaller component of the diet, plant foods are key to hominin diets, carbohydrates especially providing an efficient energy resource. This paper reviews the current evidence for the role of plant foods in the evolution and dispersal of early modern humans and our closest ancestors, with a focus on new evidence for early diet from Island Southeast