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moss wrote:
tiompan wrote:
That looks like a book worth collecting, Mabey is a good writer, as was his friend Roger Deakin, and there is even a photo of a bilberry plant carved on a bone from 1500 BC.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/16/how-plants-think-the-cabaret-of-plants-richard-mabey#img-2

We found on the banks of the Roman Practice forts at Cawthorn lined with bilberry bushes just a few weeks ago......

The Cabaret will make up for the loss of brush with nature column in the Beeb wildlife mag .

What is interesting about the few examples of possible Paleolithic depictions of plants is that they tend to be on bone .

In view of comments above people might want to look at 'The Archaeology of Disease', Don Brothwell talks about the high incidence of Spina bifida due to a lack of folic acid in the diet.