From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Apr 15 2003 - 17:18:18 MDT
Damien Sullivan wrote:
> It's worth noting that most surviving H-G cultures were the
> ones pushed into marginal habitats, ones unusable by farmers
> or pastoralists.
Is this a speculation of yours, or are you relating something you learned
from a reliable scientific source? If the latter then do you have any refs?
I'd like to see the evidence because if what you're saying is true, studies
of living HG cultures would be less reliable indicators of the prehistoric
life-style.
> If they seem to eat a lot of meat, it might
> be because of a scarcity of plants.
I'm skeptical because I don't see how it is possible for wild game to exist
in habitats where plants are scarce. The bottom of the food chain can exist
without the top but the top cannot exist without the bottom.
-gts
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