Posted on 02/02/2024 2:01:01 PM PST by SunkenCiv
You do not run after deer, although that does work with horses, actually walking is better. You spook the herd and follow them, you do that a half dozen times and you can walk right up to them and select which one you want for dinner.
Lions are short distance runners. We are built for endurance. Which means we can out last almost any animal.
Drive a number of sharpened stakes in the ground, drive a group of animals towards them and you will get at least one.
And the stakes are reusable.
I had a girl tell me that the women gatherers of a tribe supplied most of the food.
My response is “How much would they gather if the male hunting parties were not continually patrolling the tribe’s territory and keeping out neighboring tribes from encroaching?”
That's why, even today, hunters don't try to chase deer -- they sit quietly in tree stands along deer trails and wait.
My 1st hubby and I spent much of our vaca time at survival schools in NM, sometimes on week-long survival excursions where you built a shelter, fetched water hunted and learned to gather edible stuff-you ate only what you hunted/gathered. Gathering enough plant food to stay fed for even one day is a real bitch-hunting is way better, but there have to be animals available to hunt...
They extrapolate two individuals to the world and an entire era? What if these two elected to be vegetarian or were terrible hunters.
Hunting is hard. Gathering is a lot easier. A key element is cooking, which frees up a lot of nutrition in both meat and vegetables.
A famous hunter-gatherer was art vandalous. He was more of a hunter than a gather but his girlfriend tried to talk him into emphasizing the gathering more than the hunting.
Ancient humans hunted for more than just meat, they made tools, clothing, housing, etc. from hides, sinew, bones.
Fishing is hunting too, many Northern people subsisted almost entirely on food from the sea.
Probably a lot of vegetarians, for political or religious reasons like to stress how how we were all ones “vegetarians”
yes same species
This makes sense. Just try deer hunting with nothing but a sharp stick
That’s correct.
Aliens carved/placed all those megaliths on multiple continents.
Is that the dude that threw soup at the Mona Lisa?
”You want soup!?! Come back one year!!!”
Snares help.
I just just reading a study of ancient human DNA and it said humans didn’t even evolve the ability to eat plants until fairly recently!
The exact OPPOSITE of what this is saying.
Sure. If you’re a hunter, you’re not going to kill squirrels every day to provide meat. You’re going to try to bag something more substantial, something for the whole band. So it stands to reason that the ancients might not have eaten meat everyday.
Scholars now are claiming that the view of men as hunters and women as gatherers isn’t accurate and that women were also hunters, but I bet that if they really did unbiased research they’d find out (and publicize) that men were also gatherers, and perhaps even that men did more gathering than women did hunting.
Lots of rodents about. Porcupines are easy to catch. Rabbits aren’t that fast...but they corner really, really well. I chased a few jackrabbits coming home from the Airman’s Club at Lowry AFB. If you can hit them with s stick or a stone, and had multiple hunters, you could even the odds.
If it was Campbell’s soup then it was art Warhol.
this is a link to the latest data of ancient DNA ever done.
It shows that Vegetable tolerance: The ability to better survive on a vegetable-rich diet was written into Europeans’ genes by the dawn of the Neolithic Age, around 5,900 years ago.
So this article is PETA propaganda, because humans didn’t even develop the ability to eat plants until 5,900 years ago.
Not an endorsement for nowadays.
Humans have become dominant because they can survive to procreate eating just about anything. After procreation when evolution is done with you, though, plant based generally increases lifespan.
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