> This is where the concept of banquets was born Good post which I don't mean to detract from, but this is certainly not true. Even before sapiens, erectus an

> This is where the concept of banquets was born Good post which I don't mean to detract from, but this is certainly not true. Even before sapiens, erectus and neanderthalensis were big game hunters. Sapiens in particular developed the tools for mass killings of migratory herds of large animals, and the ability to set fish traps for harvesting spawning runs. Both of these left early hunter gatherers with abundant surpluses of meat at certain times of year, so much that preservation was the limiting factor in getting those calories into bodies. We know the response of the Tlingit people to this bounty from very recent history: they would throw huge banquets called potlatches.