carrots and peas with your dinosaur, love?

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>early man ate a lot of non meat products, but, when scientists did up the

>remians, wot do they find, bones, stone tools..how well is a wicker

>collecting basket going to survive?

 

 

the interesting issue to look regarding meat consumption in ancient times

is the energy reseources it would have taken, i.e. how much energy does

it take to runaround hunting and trapping versus energy that the games

returns to the individuals.

 

hunting is hugely energy inefficient, i.e a whole bunch of guys sitting

around tryng to work out how, then running around chasing things and then

beating them up and transporting them back to base for the calorific

return of a single beef burger.

 

that energy must have come from somewhere else, i.e. women and children

picking vegetables, fruits and grasses in a hugely energy efficient way.

 

what we need is a energy conservationist revision of pre-history.

studyies of traditional tribes alive to day underline this. the eating of

meat was a costly expensive luxury sustained by the mainly vegatable

based diet.

 

john

 

 

hey folk,

 

keep editing off those miles of old replies from the bottom of your

emails please!