Throw another mammoth on the grille, just in case.
Posted on 07/26/2025 10:20:40 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
...In 1991, researchers first revealed that the fossilized bones of Neanderthals had high ratios of nitrogen 15 compared with nitrogen 14 -- usually the signature of a high-meat diet... bigger meat eaters than even hypercarnivorous hyenas and lions. Butchered animal bones at archaeological sites reinforced the view that our close relatives relied heavily on meat from big game hunting.
...archaeologist John Speth of the University of Michigan... described accounts by missionaries and Arctic explorers of people who fell sick with "rabbit starvation" -- an illness that afflicts those who eat mainly lean, high-protein game meat and too little fat...
Speth's paper offered a clue -- he quoted Arctic explorers who described Indigenous people eating "thoroughly putrefied, maggot-infested animal foods as highly desirable fare, not starvation rations." Although eating rotten meat or fermented fish isn't common in Western diets, it's not unheard of: Beasley showed conference attendees slides of casu marzu, a traditional Sardinian cheese teeming with the live larvae of cheese flies...
Beasley... described unpublished results from a new study in which she tested 389 fly larvae from three species -- blow flies, cheese flies, and black soldier flies -- and found that the longer the insects fed on rotting tissue, the higher the nitrogen values of the larvae... the larvae of black soldier flies that feed on rotting tissue are about eight times higher... significantly higher than the nitrogen values found in animals and fish that humans hunt and eat, according to reports by Speth...
they're practically unavoidable when processing game outside. They are also easy to scoop from the soil beneath a carcass, she notes. And they're a salty tasting food full of fat and protein enjoyed by many modern foraging groups, according to Beasley's co-author, biological anthropologist Julie Lesnik of Wayne State University.
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Throw another mammoth on the grille, just in case.
Winters must have been very difficult for those people.
Yet the Democrats survived?
They would have been eating everything they could.
Not surprising.
They would eat whatever they could find to survive.
The ability to eat gross foods is a huge advantage for survival, not everyone can do it.
People who are starving and living hand to mouth will eat almost anything. Maggots, while disgusting to us, are probably a good source of fat and protein. I saw a documentary on PBS once about cultural food practices; the only part I remember is that people in Mexico hunt and eat mice, and eat black flies steamed in banana leaves. The New Testament teaches us that we no longer have to follow the dietary laws, so people can eat what they want. Westerners are spoiled, but if a famine occurred, we’d probably also eat whatever we could get our hands on. I read a book about Stalin’s abuses, (can’t remember the name of it; it was written by a famous guy who defected to the US, and was eventually found and killed by the KGB) in which a housewife was so embarrassed when the author visited, because she was cooking manure for her family to eat. Pitiful.
Doing so is easier when that's all you know.
In the Pacific Northwest (US & Canada) native Americans who lived on a diet containing a lot of fish and local game, did take small fish (smelt, herring etc.) and let them rot in a cedar box full of water. They would then scoop the fish oil that floated to the surface and use that in cooking and to augment their diet.
So not all rotted food needs to be eaten for maggots and fly larva.
There are places in the current world where people are forced to eat bugs, worms and all manner of weird foods.
As recently as the late 60s, Germans hung beef carcasses until they turned green and where maggot infested. They scraped off the maggoty green and the now tenderized meat was served in resultants and butcher shops along side tenderized horse meat.
Since Adam & Eve were the first humans on earth and had the intellect & common sense to eat fruit (apples, etc) and not maggots, it appears Neanderthals were an early version of Big Foot.
Yep, it is totally different when it is what you grew up on.
One time in the desert southwest a college did a study. They microscopically studied ancient Metates (Grinding Stones) to see what type of seeds and such the archaic natives were eating. They found very little vegetable matter, it was mostly rats, mice, and lizards being ground into a paste.
Garum was the Roman equivalent to what these native americans did.
why we don’t patronize the big chain fast food dispensary
“Warning: contains formerly living things.”
Bet so...with no maggots to eat...
Of course...maggots ate on them too...
“Circle of Life, babe!” and all that...
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