From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Mon Apr 14 2003 - 01:34:30 MDT
Barbara Lamar wrote:
> 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
>
> =========================
> ...
>
> Hunting technologies included several types of harpoons, the bow and arrow,
> knives, and fish spears and weirs.
> ...
>
> Particularly when compared to other hunting and gathering populations,
> Eskimo groups were justly famous for elaborate technologies
>
> ...
Yes. But is a population in an environment where practically
nothing but meat is available if they are to survive at all a
reasonable indicator of what early diets generally were?
- s
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