Source = "Prehistoric Europe: the Economic Basis"
by JGD Clark
Stanford University Press 1966 (reprint 1968)
LCCN 66-16986
Foods available in
Pre-historic Europe
last update: 23 Nov 2007

Caveat lector: While this list was gleaned from the above-cited source, any errors or omissions are mine. The following are sorted alphabetically rather than by importance which varied by locale, season and specific era. - Brenna

FruitsBeans, Grains & NutsOther vegetationAnimal (meat or product)Fish
Inland
apple
blackberry
cranberry
elderberry
fig (Mediterranean region)
grape
olive
raspberry
rose-haw
sloe-plum
strawberry
swallowthorn (aka sea berry - Hippophae)
celtic bean (Vicia faba var. celtica)
lentil (Lens esculenta)
pea (Pisum sativum)

6-row barley (Hordeum hexastichum)
4-row barley (H. vulgare)
einkorn (Triticum monococcum)
emmer (T. dicoceum)
flax
millet (Panicum miliaceum, P. italicum)
oat (Avena sativa)
rye (Secale cereale)
spelt (T. spelta)
dwarf or club wheat (T. compactum)
bread wheat (T. vulgare)

acorn
beechnut
chesnut
hazelnut
Atriplex seed (aka orach?)
bog arum (Calla palustris)
cameline (Camelina linicola)
Chenopodium album
Polygonum (several)
poppy (Papaver somniferum)
yellow waterlily (Nuphar lutea)
white waterlily (Nymphaea alba)
waternut (Trapa natans)
wild grass seed (Glyceria fluitans)
beaver
carabou
cow
crane
deer, red
elk
geese, variety wild
goat
grouse, arctic
grouse, willow
hare
horse
pig
ptarmigan
seagull
sheep
swan

milk
cheese
butter
bream
bream, white
chub
dace
pike
roach
salmon
trout
In addition were noted salt, honey, and even cranberry wine sweetened with honey!
Coastal
- In addition to the 'Inland' menu, there were also...
seaweed (Ascophyllum nodosum), limpets, mussels, rorquals/finwhale (beached), Greenland right whale (beached), orca, bottlenose dolphin, porpoise, great blue whale, Bicay right whale, pilot whale, seal, walrus, wrass, labroid, black sea-bream, conger, haddock, common sea-bream, ballanwrass, thornback ray, skate, sharks, deepwater crabs, cod, sillock/coalfish, flounder, gar-pike, ling, whiting, pollack, tunny, herring.




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