Exactly so. They balance out the Inuit of 10,000 years ago, who lived almost entirely off of hunting and fishing.
“Exactly so. They balance out the Inuit of 10,000 years ago, who lived almost entirely off of hunting and fishing.”
Because snow and ice aren’t vegetables...
“They balance out the Inuit of 10,000 years ago, who lived almost entirely off of hunting and fishing.”
The Inuit people are so much marine mammals they evolved the ability to process iron levels that would be fatal to normal people. Seal meat has near lethal levels of iron for ordinary humans. All of the descendants of the Inuit carry this gene and it presents itself in c.f. Blood tests as hemocromitosis but it’s perfectly healthy for First Nations people to have Iron levels that high this First Nations person has an iron level double ordinary humans and am perfectly fine health wise. I can eat seal , whale and walrus and have on a number of occasions w/o harm.
That said there was no domesticated animals in Mesoamerica before Columbus only the wild turkey was semi domesticated , iguanas have been kept in pens but not breed in the regular even to this day. It’s little wonder cannibalism was common in Mesoamerica the people were the livestock that could be domesticated or as t least feed on corn squash and beans the three sisters of the Mesoamerica diet.
It’s well documented that the Plains indigenous peoples lived largely on bison bison and woods bison two different species. First Nations in the Pac Northwest were fish centric the salmon is sacred for this very reason. Each culture adapted to the food resources of their ecological niches.