[Aztlan] Stone Age Americans cooking find

[michael ruggeri]

Listeros,

New studies of the diet of the First Americans reveal that the fire  
cracked rock piles that the Ancient Americans left were used as earth  
ovens to cook smoky, sweet camas bulbs--a cross between an onion and a  
potato. This was the tortilla of the Stone Age Americans. They take 2  
days to bake. This proceeded corn consumption by thousands of years  
across North America.

Camas was mashed and pounded with a mortar and pestle into a dough  
shaped into loaves and baked. The ovens have been dated from between  
7000 BCE up to 1600 AD. The food fell out of favor due to long cooking  
times, take longer to grow and provide fewer calories per pound than  
corn.

Discovery News has the story here;
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/12/22/native-american-oven.html

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