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PROF. ELLIOT SMITH has done good service in publishing Prof. Netolitzky's letter in NATURE of Jan. 15, for many must have been puzzled by the discrepancy between the statements made in 1911, and have not had the advantage of the private information with which Elliot Smith very kindly provided me. Frau Hedwig Gherasim's paper has definitely established that barley, and not wheat, was the food eaten at their last meals by the pre-dynastic people of Naga-ed-Dêr, the contents of whose stomachs had been sent to her for examination. To say, however, that this discovery “definitely establishes the fact that the pre-dynastic people did not eat wheat,” is more than the facts available warrant.
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PEAKE, H. The Beginning of Agriculture. Nature 119, 158–159 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119158a0
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