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