From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Wed Apr 16 2003 - 02:11:19 MDT
gts wrote:
> 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.
>
Some animals can digest types of plants that we cannot.
- s
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