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 |
| Fruits | Beans, Grains & Nuts | Other vegetation | Animal (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. | ||||