...Shawnee-Minisink is located on the confluence of the Delaware River and Brodhead creek on the Pennsylvania and New Jersey border. In was inhabited the Paleo-Indians as long ago as 10,937 +/-15 14C B.P. This site is one of about two dozen in the United States of America. They traveled into the Americas by crossing the Bering Strait which then was a land and ice bridge called Beringia. The Paleo-Indians then made their way south and east and some of them ended up at Shawnee-Minisink. This site consists of two hearths, and tens of thousands of artifacts from that time period. Most of the artifacts recovered are floral and faunal remains that were at one point in or around the fire. This gave researchers a good look in to what was growing in the...
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...Theresa Cushion Professor Miner 25 March 2012 Windover Pond Discovered by accident in 1982 by a backhoe operator during construction for a housing development, Windover Pond in Florida is one of the world’s greatest archaeological finds (The Brevard Museum). Located near Titusville in Brevard County, Windover Pond is an ancient, shallow bog pond that was a burial ground for more than 200 Native Americans who lived in the area about 8,000 years ago. (The Brevard Museum). Radiocarbon dating tests indicated the oldest skeletons were buried 8,100 years ago, and the youngest was placed in the ground 6,900 years ago, 3,000 to 4,000 years before the Egyptian pyramids (Suriano, Robert). Windover dates an advanced culture in North America that precedes any previously discovered anywhere else in the world (Suriano, Robert) and the burial site is a planned community cemetery (Nielson, Paula J.). Most significant of the discoveries at Windover Pond are the cloth fragments, the oldest cloth ever found in the Western hemisphere (Suriano, Robert). The cloth was made from the leaves of sabal palm, and the pieces reveal five different methods of fabric making, although no evidence of a loom was found (Suriano, Robert). Some of the fabrics are woven as tightly as a cotton T-shirt, and others are made more loosely twined into blankets, capes, and toga-like garments (Suriano, Robert). A total of ninety-one brains have been recovered from the site, the first time that intact human brains...
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...Credit Assignment—A Review of the Paleo Diet ` The paleo diet has been a source of much ridicule, praise, and controversy among health enthusiasts and nutritionists. The diet emphasizes foods that a person would eat if they lived in the Paleolithic age: between 10,000 to 2.6 million years ago. Proponents of this diet emphasize high meat and produce intake while avoiding dairy products, grains, legumes, and sugar. Paleo advocates accentuate that this essentially what a caveman would eat, not having access to any sort of livestock or harvested food and eating only what could be hunted or gathered. Their logic is that when humanity existed before agriculture and farm animals humans were lighter in weight, taller in height, and did not suffer from the same diseases modern civilization suffers from today. Evidence of this is claimed to be found in human specimens of those from the Paleolithic period and of those from the subsequent Neolithic Period. The Paleolithic man score a 97.7% on the Pelvet Inlet depth Index—a measurement of overall health of a people based on anatomical data of people from human samples that inhabited the Balkans, Ukraine, North Africa, and Israel—compared the Neolithic man’s score of 75.6% (Nicholson). Despite this, the paleo diet was reported to be the least healthy diet on the U.S. News and World Report’s list of healthy diets and is still a topic of debate today (Wilson). There are some inherent deductions that the Paleo diet proponents make such as considering...
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...Since it has been suggested that Paleo diet has been beneficial in weight balance, Mellberg et al. 2014 hypothesized that Paleo diet was going to work better during a two-year period. In this study, the participants were 70 postmenopausal women that had a BMI greater than 27. They were randomly selected and everyone apart from the dietitians didn’t know they diet that each participant was assigned to (Paleo diet or a diet following dietary guidelines). Participants were given recipes and instructions to take home. During the first six months, there were four cooking classes and four follow up sessions offered (Mellberg et al. 2014). At the beginning of the study, anthropometric measurements were taken and then later taken at 6, 12, 18, and 24 months. These measurements included abdominal diameter, body composition, blood pressure, glucose levels, and energy expenditure. Participants were asked to keep a food record for four days (which included 3 weekdays and 1 weekend day). The...
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...Slimmer! Disclaimer All contents copyright © 2012 by (Author Name). All rights reserved worldwide. No part of this document or the related materials may be reproduced or transmitted in any form, by any means (electronic, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior WRITTEN permission of the publisher. The credited photos are the property of their respective owner. THE SERVICE AND THE MATERIALS CONTAINED WITHIN THE PALEO LIFETYLE RECIPE BOOK ARE ON AN “AS IS” BASIS AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICE OR ANY MATERIALS AND PRODUCTS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICE, THE MATERIALS AND THE PRODUCTS CONTAINED WITHIN. Table of Contents Introduction 7 Important Measurements 9 Red Meat 12 Beef Short Ribs 13 Stuffed Bell Peppers with Tomato Sauce 15 Paleo Pizza: The ‘Meatza’ 16 Shepherd’s Pie 18 Bean-Less Texas Style Chilli 19 Lasagne with Zucchini Noodles 20 Fresh Herb Meatballs 22 Chorizo Burgers with Fried Eggs and Onions 23 Simple Meatloaf 25 Simple Beef Pot Roast 26 BBQ Grilled Lamb Kebabs 27 Garlic and Herb Stuffed Lamb Shanks 28 Roast Leg of Lamb with Eggplants 29 Rack of Lamb Marinated In Herbs 31 Roasted Lamb Shanks 33 Pork 35 Tomato, Oregano...
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...Most People Ask About The Paleo Diet The Paleo diet has taken the internet by storm since it gained popularity two years ago. The ‘cave man’ diet entails mimicking the eating habits of the Paleolithic people thousands of years ago. However, there are still confusions about how to go about with the diet. Here are some of the most asked questions regarding Paleo. 1. What is Paleo Diet? The Paleo diet is a new trend in nutrition wherein it tries to replicate the diet of cavemen in ancient Paleolithic era. They survived through hunting and gathering of food and depended on lean proteins such as fish, poultry, eggs, fruits and vegetables. 2. What kinds of food are included in the list of the Paleo diet? Mainly, the food consumed in...
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...The Main Benefits Of The Paleo Diet The Paleo diet is gaining in popularity nowadays. With an increasing number of people realizing the detriments to eating unhealthy, more people are turning back to the basics in terms of diets. Turning back in time to what our ancestors ate and eliminating a lot of the refined foods that came in recent times. If you are wondering whether or not you should give the Paleo diet a try, you will want to know and understand the benefits of it. Below, we will be going over some of the many benefits of this kind of diet plan... First, What Is The Paleo Diet? The premise of the Paleo diet takes cues from our hunter-gatherer ancestors. The diet primarily consists of foods that they would normally consume. Whether it's fruit, vegetables, meats, seafood, or nuts. It largely eliminated grains and the foods that man created later on. The diet is said to really provide nutrients and foods that we originally ate which happened to shape our genetic make up today. It is said to provide much better overall health and it can successfully lessen the body's natural glycemic load. Benefits Of The Paleo Diet: 1. Better Muscle to Fat Ratio....
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...On of the most common questions about the Paleo Diet is whether of not it is a low carb diet. They fast answer is yes and no. There are different variations of the Paleo Diet. However, they are all based on the idea of eating like a "caveman". The diet plan is based on scientific evidence showing that humans evolved to eat certain types of foods, and just because certain vegetation is eatable does not make it good to eat. Does that make sense to you? The evident shows that many diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, were almost nonexistence before humans began widespread farming and the domestication of plants. Our biology developed based on the foods we ate as hunter-gatherers, not the foods we started eating after becoming farmers....
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...Andrea Qualls History of Arkansas 201810 Travis Crader 30 January 2018 During the Paleo-Indian Era food such as plants or aquatic animals were scarce; therefore, the Paleo-Indians had to get creative in hunting and gathering. To feed on the animals that were around such as mammoth, mastodons, bison, deer, rabbit, squirrel, gopher, and the like, the Paleo-Indians made Clovis points that worked in conjunction with throwing sticks, adze blades or adze scrapers, Dalton points, knives, engravers, abraders, hammer stones, and spear points for hunting. Bone needles and awl were used on animal hide to make clothing. The Paleo-Indians harvested natural resources that were located far away from the temporary homes or lean-tos they lived in although...
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...Paleo Project II: Neandertal Project The first members of our species, Homo sapiens, dates back to around 500,000 years ago with the emergence of archaic humans. Originating in Africa, these species migrated to other parts of the Old World (Lecture Week 14). The fossils discovered of archaic humans in different parts of the Old World were found to have slight differences among them. The fossils found of archaic Homo sapiens in Europe had Neandertal-like characteristics, signifying the origins of Neandertal. The Neandertal lived during a period of time that also overlapped with modern Homo sapiens. The Neandertals occupied the majority of Europe and parts of the Middle East from around 100,000 to 30,000 years ago, while modern humans date back...
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...Joshua Meadows Nathaniel Widener HIS 131.05E 22 September 2014 How did the Paleo-Indians populate the Americas? The earliest Americans, called Paleo-Indians by archeologists, were the first people to settle America (Boyer 3). It is the popular belief among most archeologists that the Paleo-Indians had spread to most of North America by 13,000 B.C.E. From there, different groups of them migrated south into Mesoamerica and South America (Boyer 1). While the immigration of the Paleo-Indians happened at various times and for various reasons, the populating of the Americas happened because people arrived from northeastern Asia, then interrelated with other bands and tribes, and migrated toward certain desired environments or climates. The first...
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...Indians, West Africans, and Europeans came together in North America setting in motion the process in which America would become an independent nation. Life in North America can be divided into three periods: Paleo-Indians, the Archaic, and the pre-Columbian. The first peoples to settle were Paleo-Indians. It is believed they came to America to find food. During the Archaic Era the peoples of America began to grow crops. This allowed them to settle in areas and not have the need to always follow herd animals for food. Population growth was a result this era. Since there were to many peoples in a given area, some left the whole and started new tribes. Tribes that settled near waters caught fish to trade with tribes that tracked and caught animals....
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...American History {Chapter 1} The First People of the Americas People Migrate to the Americas * Paleo-Indians – first humans to live in the Americas (believed to have come from Siberia) * Ice Age – a time lasting thousands of years during which the Earth was covered with ice and glaciers * The Paleo-Indian hunters had a favored prey of immense mammals such as mammoths, mastodons, and giant bison * The first people to arrive in the Americas arrived in small boats Paleo-Indians Adapt to Climate Change * The warming climate and the spread of the skilled Paleo-Indian hunters killed off the mammoths and other large mammals * Paleo-Indians adapted to the climate change by relying less on hunting large mammals and more in fishing and gathering nuts, berries, and roots * Developed tracking techniques needed for hunting small, mobile animals such as deer, antelope, moose, elk, and caribou * More food sources led to population growth Diverse Culture Emerge * Indians became culturally diverse as they adapted to their varying local climates and environments * Over time, languages, rituals, mythic stories, and kinship systems became more complex and varied * By 1492, American Indians spoke at least 375 distinct languages (Athapaskan, Alogonquian, Caddoan, Siouan, Shoshonean, and Iroquoian) * Each language group divided into many ethnic groups called tribes or nations (subdivided into many smaller groups that identified with a particular village...
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...The Paleo Diet The Paleo Diet or Paleolithic Diet is referred to as the Caveman Diet, the Stone-age Diet, and the Hunter-Gatherer Diet. It is not about tearing chunks of meat off animals. It is about type of foods that are eaten. The Paleo Diet is the healthiest way a person can eat because it is the only nutritional approach that works to help stay lean, strong and energetic. Researchers indicate that the modern diet which is full of refined foods, trans fats and sugar cause diseases such as cancer, obesity, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and infertility. Scientific research studies show that diets rich in Omega-3 and Monounsaturated fats will reduce these diseases dramatically. Some of these foods include lean proteins for strong muscles and healthy bones and it satisfies hunger between meals. Fruits and vegetables that are rich in vitamins, minerals and antioxidants decrease the development of degenerative diseases. Also, healthy fats from nuts, seeds, olive oil and grass fed meats reduce these diseases (Wolf, 2014). The purpose of the Paleo Diet is to eat a low sugar diet to avoid inflammation. High sugar and high starchy foods turn into sugar and produces inflammation. Cells can absorb so much sugar before becoming inflamed and hormones control blood sugar so a person will not pass out (miraclenoodle.com, 2014). The fact that the Paleo Diet delivers the best results is the fact that most people needs. It improves blood lipids, weight loss and reducing pain is all...
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...POT ROAST- 1 chuck roast (2.5-3 pounds), carrots, onion, potatoes (red, or sweet for paleo) garlic, thyme, salt and pepper. 16 oz beef broth. FRENCH SHREDDED BEEF- 1 chuck roast (2.5-3 pounds), 4 tsp homemade ranch seasoning, 1 tsp homemade italian seasoning, onion, garlic, 16 oz beef broth. Serve on bread, or serve alone for paleo as shredded beef. GREEN CHILI BEEF- 1 chuck roast (2.5-3 pounds), 1 jar green salsa, garlic, onions CHICKEN FAJITAS- 4-6 breasts. Onion, red pepp, green pepp, tons of Mexican seasonings, 8 oz chicken broth. ITALIAN CHICKEN- 4-6 breasts. 6 tablespoons Italian seasoning. 8 oz chicken broth. CHICKEN & DUMPLINGS 4-6 breasts, 1 cream mushroom, 1 cream chicken, 1 cup coconut milk last 45 minutes, in last hour- add one can of cut up biscuits (uncooked) (cut them to about 1" pieces before adding into the crock pot) CHEESY CHICKEN - 4-6 breasts, 1 can of mushrooms, 8 oz chicken broth, Last hour add: 1/4 cup coconut milk, 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese, bag of frozen broccoli. HAWAIIAN CHICKEN- 4-6 breasts, 1 can pineapple, 1 jar of Hawaiian BBQ sauce. Add 1/2 cup water when it goes into crock pot. RANCH CHICKEN 4-6 breasts. 1/4 cup homemade ranch seasoning. 16 oz chicken broth. 4-6 potatoes (red or sweet for paleo) . GREEN CHILI CHICKEN - 4-6 breasts, 1 jar green salsa, garlic, onions. CHILI 1 pound cooked ground beef or turkey, 2 cans BBQ beans, 2 cans tomatoes, 1 can black beans, 2 cans white beans, garlic ,...
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