RE: FITNESS: Diet and Exercise

From: Barbara Lamar (blamar@satx.rr.com)
Date: Sat Apr 12 2003 - 22:27:28 MDT

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    To continue the discussion about human hunters. gts claims that early humans
    and pre-humans got a large % of their calories from meat. I said I found it
    difficult to believe that creatures with either no hunting gear, or with
    nothing more sophisticated than spears, could kill enough meat to get a
    large % of their calories that way. (I don't believe that gts was arguing
    that humans got a large % of their calories from chewing on scavenged bones)

    The cultures that come immediately to my mind when I think of getting a
    large % of calories from meat are the various groups collectively known as
    Eskimo people. Here's what a quick search turns up on those cultures:

    http://www.bartleby.com/65/es/Eskimo.html

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    Hunting technologies included several types of harpoons, the bow and arrow,
    knives, and fish spears and weirs.
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    Particularly when compared to other hunting and gathering populations,
    Eskimo groups were justly famous for elaborate technologies

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    Barbara



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