Dr. Weston Price was a dentist who travelled the globe in the 1930s to remote areas where native peoples, untouched by modern civilization, lived. He found some commonalities to the diets of these groups, although the diets were based on locally available foodstuffs, which obviously differed depending on location. He found and photographed the beautiful bone structure of the people, complete with wide faces and healthy skin and teeth. These pictures alone are worth getting a copy of the book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. (But the book is also available free online at soilandhealth.org) He also demonstrated that in each group, when the natives came in contact with the commerce foods of industry through trade, the health of the next generation suffered. Just fascinating reading, even if some of his assumptions and conclusions were incorrect (Down's Syndrome comes to mind in this regard, iirc).
All traditional peoples he studied ate some of their animal foods raw. They also all ate fermented plant and/or animal foods for the bacterial properties. So for someone eating a Paleolithic diet, it is a natural approach to take. However, many of the tribes ate Neolithic foods, and as such they had to cook (raw potatoes, legumes and grains are inedible). They also cooked Paleolithic foods. But when considering when he performed his studies, this is no surprise.
The Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF) has helped to disseminate his work, yet they have also skewed his findings towards a grain and dairy based model, imo. You see, Dr. Price found that ALL the tribes he studied went to great lengths to obtain seafood (of course, islanders had little trouble in this regard). Only 2 out of the 12 people he studied ate any dairy on a regular basis. Only a few at any grain (I will get back with you on exact numbers by skimming the Price book tomorrow). Only the Swiss ate a grain that contained gluten. Yet, bread and dairy are both so heavily emphasized in the WAPF literature!
So I would say that if you look directly at the work he did, and you consider a more Paleolithic approach to the whole thing, then you will find it is easy to do RPD Price style. It might even be fun to do the Inuit diet, or the Masai diet. Truly.
