E.P. Grondine wrote:Tiompan, spice -
May I suggest that you visit the nice museum at Poverty Point and get back to me on their foods?
At it's most obvious look at these links .
https://www.crt.state.la.us/dataproject ... IS/ppt.htm .
"People living at the regional center relied on hunting, fishing, and plant collecting to supply their food, just as Meso-Indians had. They gathered pecans, acorns, hickory nuts, persimmons, seeds of wild grasses, and other wild plant foods. Animals they ate included deer, rabbits, squirrels, raccoons, muskrats, ducks, geese, turkeys, turtles, catfish, gar, bowfin, and bass."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_Point
"The food sources of the people at Poverty Point came from the local animals and plant life in the region. The Poverty Point people’s food was acquired through: fishing, gathering, and hunting. Poverty Point subsistence was broad-based due to the different seasonal foods that were available. Their diet would have consisted of large mammals like deer, small mammals like rabbits, various fish and turtles, mollusks, nuts, fruits, berries, and aquatic roots.[33] They cooked food in hearths and pits that likely acted as earth ovens, some of which had plastered walls.[34] Firewood was chosen carefully, with specific trees being used, namely oak and to a lesser degree hickory and cane, which archaeologist Jon L. Gibson believed was due to the fact that oak and hickory add a specific savoury flavour to food. "People living at the regional center relied on hunting, fishing, and plant collecting to supply their food, just as Meso-Indians had. They gathered pecans, acorns, hickory nuts, persimmons, seeds of wild grasses, and other wild plant foods. Animals they ate included deer, rabbits, squirrels, raccoons, muskrats, ducks, geese, turkeys, turtles, catfish, gar, bowfin, and bass. "
Nuts are just one of the components of the diet . You would have misunderstood the info at the museum if you believe otherwise .