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There’s many theories but one that I learned was that women and children provides the bulk of the calories for Early Humans. While the men went out and hunted f
by slicktux 1mo ago
There’s many theories but one that I learned was that women and children provides the bulk of the calories for Early Humans. While the men went out and hunted for meat they also relied on the fruit harvested by the women and children. That would give them the energy necessary for trekking and hunting.
- pfdietz 1mo ago> fruit harvested Also tubers.
- smellsfruity 1mo agoSo we’re expected to believe each man is carry a basket of rapidly deteriorating fruit (and tubers). Or a knapsack of dried fatty meat with a fairly indefinite shelf life.
- cgyvbunji 1mo agoMaybe they took dried fruit
- smellsfruity 1mo agoMaybe they took both.
- cgyvbunji 1mo agoOk.
- ux266478 1mo agoFruit doesn't go bad in a day.
- margalabargala 1mo agoThe Inca had a method of drying potatoes such that they were stable for multiple years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chu%C3%B1o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chu%C3%B1o
- funcDropShadow 1mo agoBut the Inca lived to late for this discussion. They already had advanced agriculture. For evolutionary terms, the time before agriculture and the time of the predecessors of homo sapiens are more relevant, because that time span was larger by orders of magnitude.
- sandworm101 1mo agoEveryone participated in everything. Getting food was basically 90% of everyone's day. When berries were in season, which might only be a week or two, everyone picked berries. When the salmon migrated, everyone worked the river. And then, when there were no plants in season and the only calories were from hunting, everyone supported the hunt. The idea of four guys going into the woods and spearing a deer is a myth, a false parallel to modern sport hunting. Beaters pushed the prey towards kill zones. Fires could be set to get game moving. Fences would be biult to funnel game. And everyone was involved in processing the kill. Sure, maybe the big guys threw the spears but that was actually a small part of the process. The safest kill would always have been that where the animal injured itself first, no big guy muscles required. So there were plenty of jobs for all abilities.
- energy123 1mo agoHow do you know this? Anthropology?
- sandworm101 1mo agoWell, there are heaps of hunting structures left out there, and infamous places where animals were run off cliffs. But also, just watch anyone trying to catch an animal, be it a dog or a buffalo. Good luck trying to sneek within spear range. What most do is get a bunch of people together to scare the animal into a particular direction or place. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_jump https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_jump https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_kite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_kite https://explorersweb.com/hiker-discovers-iron-age-reindeer-fence-in-norway/ https://explorersweb.com/hiker-discovers-iron-age-reindeer-f... https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/northern-yukon-caribou-fences https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/northern-yukon... >> The most technologically sophisticated is the caribou fence complex. Ten of these complexes have been studied by archaeologists in the northern Yukon and nearly 40 others have been recorded in adjacent Alaska. The oldest surviving fences date to the early 1800s, but oral history suggests fences may have been used for thousands of years; they were last used about 1910.
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- moltar 1mo agoFruit were completely different and a lot less sugary and more starchy than they are today. We wouldn’t recognize most fruit neither by look nor by taste. https://www.businessinsider.com/what-foods-looked-like-before-genetic-modification-2016-1/ https://www.businessinsider.com/what-foods-looked-like-befor...