Hunter-gatherers used this stone as a combination pestle and grinder to make flour from oats and other grains, says Marta Mariotti Lippi, a professor of botany at the University of Florence in Italy.

FLORENCE, Italy, Sept. 17 (UPI) --Sorry paleo dieters, cavemen weren't exclusively meat eaters. They liked their grains too. Researchers in Italy say they've identified the earliest evidence of food ...

Once thought of as near total carnivores, early humans ate ground flour 20,000 years before the dawn of agriculture. Flour residues recovered from 30,000-year-old grinding stones found in Italy, ...

Life in the kitchen can be a real grind — and, in this case, that’s a good thing. By grinding your own whole-grain flour, you open the door to a new world of tastes and textures, with the added ...

Oatmeal is generally considered a no-no on the modern paleo diet, but the original paleo eaters were definitely grinding oats and other grains for dinner, according to new research. That finding comes ...