Early Americans ate seaweed, page

From a post at the Hall of Ma'at by Paul H.

Earliest Known American Settlers Harvested Seaweed, National
Geographic, May 8, 2008,

National Geo

US anthropologists detail discovery of earliest American remains
The Canadian Press,

Canadian

Monte Verde, Seaweed, and the Pacific Coast Migration Model,
Kris's Archaeology Blog,

Archaeology

The paper discussed in the above articles is:

Dillehay, T. D., C. Ramírez, M. Pino, M. B. Collins, J. Rossen,
and J. D. Pino-Navarro, 2008, Monte Verde: Seaweed, Food, Medicine,
and the Peopling of South America. Science. vol. 320, no. 5877,
pp. 784-786.

www.sciencemag.org...

The seaweed is interesting but the mention of a gomphothere is even more interesting.[en.wikipedia.org] Now the Wiki article mentions that they belonged in the Miocene and Pliocene epochs. Their survival in South America until 14,000 years ago could explain the 4 tusked 'mammoth' sketched on that engraved mammoth pelvis found by Juan Armenta Camacho at Valsequillo.

[edit on 9/5/08 by Hanslune]

Map and pictures of the site

reply to post by Hanslune

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That makes perfect sense.
In fact, they'd be unnaturally silly - or unresourceful - if they hadn't.

Seaweed is still to this day a staple food in many Japanese localities, for example.

Where I live on the East coast of Canada, bags of dried seaweed can be bought at many stores.
We call it Dulce.
It's chewy, salty and very tasty. (almost like a vegetable type of beef jerky)

And from this link you can see from this link, it is LOADED with vitamins and minerals:
www.grandmanannb.com...

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