Interesting new Eades blog post about ancestral diet analysis methods

[Susan]

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http://tinyurl.com/7ggtpdu

"As you can see from this slide, the Neanderthal subjects were ranked a
bit above the wolf and fox on the predator/meat eating scale. As
Michael Richards commented in the paper cited above:

…the European Neanderthal diet indicates that although physiologically
they were presumably omnivores, they behaved as carnivores, with animal
protein being the main source of dietary protein."


Susan

[outsider]

On 12/20/2011 9:36 AM, Susan wrote:
> x-no-archive: yes
>
> http://tinyurl.com/7ggtpdu
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> "As you can see from this slide, the Neanderthal subjects were ranked a
> bit above the wolf and fox on the predator/meat eating scale. As Michael
> Richards commented in the paper cited above:
>
> …the European Neanderthal diet indicates that although physiologically
> they were presumably omnivores, they behaved as carnivores, with animal
> protein being the main source of dietary protein."
>
>
> Susan

The discovery/development of tools brought about the change from a
more omnivorous diet. After all, there were very few healthy animals
that any human, or protohuman for that matter, could catch and kill
with his bare hands.