Re:Ötzi’s last supper: mummified hunter's final meal revealed
by pvaldes on Saturday July 14, 2018 @05:47AM
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You can make a bread using braken flour. Is toxic at long term, but canker is not a problem if you are in a hurry and do not plan to live more than 50 years in any case. Probably they would combine Triticum and Pteridium together making a more palatable product.
Many things could point to stolen food and a harsh conditions. He was probably desperate for food. For a human eating fat regularly, he was very slim.
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)...
"major proportion of plant reads belong to the species Pteridium aquilinum subsp. aquilinum and to members of the genus Triticum "
"the Triticum reads were more specifically assigned to chloroplast genomes of Triticum monococcum (einkorn) and Triticum urartu"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einkorn_wheat
Wheat.
It seem the Iceman not only ate deer mean but also... wheat, so probably some kind of bread.
Also, for the context: the Iceman lived "between 3400 and 3100 BCE." It can be that he lived at the same time as Egypt already wrote about its first pharaohs (c. 3150 BCE)! And Egypt's key for success for millennia was in its... wheat production.
Moreover, the "Iceman" got frozen in ice by accident, but at that time the last ice age was also over for cca 5000 years.