ERC Consolidator Grant · 2025
The development of agriculture 11,000 years ago in Southwest Asia fundamentally transformed human societies and their relationships with plants and landscapes, often portrayed as arising from the increasingly intensive use of starch-rich grasses. Plant-Pro challenges current understandings of the transition from foraging to farming through its deep-time focus on changes to the use of protein-rich plants by early humans (Neanderthals and Homo sapiens). A new reliance on protein-rich plants, achieved through novel forms of cooking and food preparation, provides evidence for previously undocumented adaptations to major shifts in the environmental availability of wild food resources. The…
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