Atkins

Gross! But you're probably right.

Even today, a lot of country people eat just about every part of the cows &
pigs: pig feet, intestines, testicles, tongue, snout, just about everything.
You can smell them cooking miles away.

I guess if you're gonna kill it, you should be forced to eat it all....

| If they were
| luckly enough to get a critter--as you said-- they
| probably ate every damn bit of it--except the nails,
| teeth, and fur.
|
| George W. Cherry
|
|

On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 13:16:33 -0400, George Cherry wrote in
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Quoted message said:

Yeah, and I bet they gathered a hell of a lot more
than they successfully hunted. Try to bring down a
squirrel or rabbit, much less a bison, by hurling a
rock at it it. Their diets were probably largely plant
foods--since plants don't run away.

[...]

On the other hand, as SBH reminded us, they also gathered insects...
And, probably, they also gathered other invertebrates, and "hunted"
amphibians and reptiles, not just mammals and fish...

--
Enrico C

George Cherry said:

Yeah, and I bet they gathered a hell of a lot more
than they successfully hunted. Try to bring down a
squirrel or rabbit, much less a bison, by hurling a
rock at it it. Their diets were probably largely plant
foods--since plants don't run away. If they were
luckly enough to get a critter--as you said-- they
probably ate every damn bit of it--except the nails,
teeth, and fur.

In Europe and other regions to the North? What plant foods? They ate
meat out of necessity.

Quoted message said:

George W. Cherry

"RBR" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

George Cherry said:

Yeah, and I bet they gathered a hell of a lot more
than they successfully hunted. Try to bring down a
squirrel or rabbit, much less a bison, by hurling a
rock at it it. Their diets were probably largely plant
foods--since plants don't run away. If they were
luckly enough to get a critter--as you said-- they
probably ate every damn bit of it--except the nails,
teeth, and fur.

In Europe and other regions to the North? What plant foods? They ate
meat out of necessity.

Try reading Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel". Here's a bit of
his argument. (But human life did not originate in Eurasia. I was writing
above about the progenitors of the human beings in northern climes.)

A similar and perhaps less well-known effect occurred with respect to
domesticable plants. Eurasia was simply lucky in that its environment
provided a much larger stock of plants that lent themselves to
domestication, and plants that had better quality in terms of the nutrients
supplied, resistance to disease, ease of cultivation and so on. Botanical
wealth, constrained by the local flora, determined agriculture, agriculture
determined everything else, says Diamond. Eurasia won because the supply of
wild plants that provided the gene pool for domesticated crops was larger,
richer, and better. If you feel that this is a bit simplistic, read his
chapters on "How to Make an Almond" and "Apples and Indians." It is a
serious, informed, and well-thought out argument, and if in the end we are
not wholly convinced, thinking of how to refute Diamond will make us wiser
and better informed.

George W. Cherry