We suggest:
during the early Mid-Pleistocene, hominins implemented multi-stage procedures comprising underwater gathering & subsequent processing: drying, roasting & popping of E.ferox nuts. Hierarchical processing strategies are observed in the
Acheulian lithic reduction sequences & butchering of game at this & other sites,
but are poorly understood as regards the exploitation of aquatic plant resources.
We highlight the ability of Acheulian hominins to resolve issues related to underwater gathering of E.ferox nuts during the plant's life cycle, and to adopt
strategies to enhance their nutritive value.
If true, this is proto agriculture.
They harvested plants and, according to this, dried them for future use.
And it SIGNIFICANTLY pre dates the first glimpses of agriculture inside the Holocene.
Like: Göbekli Tepe.
Supposedly, between the end of the last glacial period and the start of the Younger Dryas cooling, there was a thriving proto agricultural civilization(s)
in the Levant up into Anatolia. But these would be way, Way, WAY younger than what you cite, if true.
Imagine: Aquatic Ape giving rise to agriculture!
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