Note: I am talking about ancient Hunter gathers not the modern Hunter gathers because they are not a view into the past.
I feel like Hunter gathers are more diverse than we think.
Note: I am talking about ancient Hunter gathers not the modern Hunter gathers because they are not a view into the past.
I feel like Hunter gathers are more diverse than we think.
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also, people have been eating a lot less red meat than anyone thinks, and for a longer time than anyone thinks.
studies of 10,000 y.o. indigenous European hunter gatherers (WHG) show that their clay pots almost exclusively had residues of fish fats. After the neolithic and Indoeuropean invasions, this transitioned to being mostly dairy fat (still not animal flesh fat)
basically there was always a limited supply of big wild game, for the same reasons that beef farming is land intensive even today--the price of something is a pretty good indicator of its rarity.
Red meat is also a very high risk strategy, as opposed to just existing near a river/lake and being guaranteed food. a vast majority of hunter-gatherers were really "fisher-gatherers" and small-game trappers.
Plus once you start getting agriculture you def dont want to be eating a ton of red meat because thats your fucking farming tool. One of the reasons ancients prized cattle so much was because they were extremely valuable farm equipment and sacrificing one to your god was a big deal.