La incorporació de plantes i animals a l'alimentació humana al llarg de la història

Soler Masferrer, Narcís
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In each era and in each place, the nutrition of prehumans and humans has been based on the resources they had at their disposal without having to transform them and on those they could obtain and make ediblesthanks to their culture and technology. In the most remote times, the changes in food were slow, motivated by the variations in the climate, the progressive adaptation to the environment and the incipient technology. The mastery and use of fire led to a decisive change in food and human relationships. During the Paleolithic, humans were hunters and gatherers, and therefore depended on the animals that moved through their territory and the plants that lived there. From the Neolithic onwards there is a decisive change thanks to the incorporation of new resources in the form of plants and domestic animals, which in many places were not indigenous and arrived from afar, and to innovations in the storage, treatment and consumption of resources. In ancient times the conquests of Alexander, the Roman and the Chinese Empires allowed the exchange of plants and animals in a large part of the Old World. In medieval times, the arrival of new products will continue with the expansion of Islam and the trade in spices and smoked or salted fish. In modern times, the Old World came into contact with America and Oceania, where food was based on plants and animals native to these continents that had been domesticated there. The two worlds, Old and New, will exchange plants and animals until today. Finally, in contemporary times, industrialization, long–distance contacts and migrations have accelerated changes to the current progressive globalization of resources and food practices. ​
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