“…While often perceived as animal feed, with herds of livestock pigs being released into oak forests to browse for acorns (a widespread practice referred to as pannage [ 2 ], acorns represented an important part of both the gastronomical and medical folklore of various regions of North America, Europe, North Africa, the Near East and Central Asia, as indicated by a wealth of ethnoarchaeobotanical and historical evidence [ 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 ].…”