Paleolithic diet/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Paleolithic diet.

A diet consumed by some contemporary humans, consisting of items of foods selected from the types or groups of foods consumed by ancestral humans who lived during the Paleolithic age, or Old (paleo) Stone (lithic) age, predominantly in Sub-Sahara Africa, beginning approximately 2 million years ago (2 mya) and ending with the introduction of agriculture approximately 10,000 years ago (10 kya). Also the diet consumed by those Paleolithic human ancestors.