p. 111 | Fruit in Prehistoric Times

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Mar 9, 1876

Fruit in Prehistoric Times.

Mr. Messikomer has discovered, in making explorations of the cities of ancient European lakes, the fossil remains of many of the primitive inhabitants. Cooking utensils and other articles are found in abundance in the same localities. In many places the food of the ancient inhabitants is found in considerable quantities preserved in a fossil state. It is an interesting fact, which corroborates the statements of history, that the remains found are almost always of a vegetable character, being chiefly fruits. This observation is so general that scientists have decided that the primitive inhabitants of those regions were vegetarians.—Ex.