From: Barbara Lamar (blamar@satx.rr.com)
Date: Sun Apr 13 2003 - 08:08:09 MDT
gts wrote:
> You seem to be forgetting that North American people, including
> Eskimos, are
> not truly Paleolithic.
And you seem to be missing the point I was trying to make, which was that
cultures in which people get a large % of their calories from meat are NOT
Paleolithic cultures but rather modern HG cultures.
>Homo did not appear on the American
> continents until
> roughly 10 to 15 thousand years ago. That's just yesterday in
> terms of human
> evolution.
Precisely.
> As for hunting being unlikely because it's difficult without a gun, well,
> that's just plain silly.
I don't know whether I failed abysmally at communicating or if you're
deliberately misrepresenting what I wrote. Let's take a look at the
evidence. I wrote: "But I do find it difficult to believe that early humans
with no hunting gear more sophisticated than the spear could have gotten a
large % of calories from meat." Should I have spelled out the fact that
there were many advances in hunting technology in relatively recent times?
(recent in the evolutionary sense; it's clear from your comments above that
you understand the term "recent" in this context) The atlatl, for example.
The bow and arrow. Are you suggesting that bows and arrows are no more
sophisticated than spears? Or that there are only two levels of hunting
technology -- spears and guns?
Barbara
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