Dr. Steven Novella
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And it doesn't fade with time, I guess.
Well, they could analyze it, and you find—it's not like DNA, but you could find the parts of the food that you're eating sort of embedded in the plaque.
Well, more like not recognizable structures, but you could find— Proteins?
Close enough that I agree with you.
So, for example, you could find the chitin of insects.
He did.
I did.
But it's trapped in the plaque.
Isn't that cool?
Well, fungus.
So we have a pretty good record of how many chitinous things these people were eating over the last 33,000 years.
The question is, were they eating them?
The question is, how much were they eating, right?
Yeah.
And so this one is the fiction.
You guys got it.
Oh!
And there's a couple of reasons why it's the fiction.
But Kara, you hit on the main one, probably the main one.
Latitude.