A surprising food may have been a staple of the real Paleo diet: rotten meat

Re:A surprising food may have been a staple of the real Pale... by dmm on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @11:47AM (#35358955)

In her book "The Old Way", Elizabeth Marshall Thomas describes the Kalahari San who she lived with in the 1950s. Despite having bows and arrows some members of that group would persistence hunt.

Dmitriy Lykov(1940-1981) of the Lykov family living an isolated life in Siberia developed a method of persistence hunting, despite or perhaps because of, the absence of any sort of hunting culture in his tiny, isolated group.

Those are just two very recent examples off the top of my head of people persistence hunting for survival. Maybe you're out of your depth on this subject.

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Re:A surprising food may have been a staple of the real Pale... by trws on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @12:06PM (#35359226)

In addition to the direct persistence hunting, also note that most bow and arrow hunting or even spear hunting is, in and of itself, a form of persistence hunting. The expectation that an arrow will take down the animal where it is hit is usually not how it would have worked with more primitive bows except with very small game. The animal would still have to be followed and possibly struck more times to actually bring it down. Bull fighting is a modern extension of this, though in an enclosed space.

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Re:A surprising food may have been a staple of the real Pale... by precompute on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @02:59PM (#35361647)

Some tribes in Africa also drink milk mixed with animal blood. Not enough water to go around.

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Re:A surprising food may have been a staple of the real Pale... by jodrellblank on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @07:32PM (#35365451)

(Off topic)

“despite or perhaps because of, sucks” - https://idlewords.com/2003/04/despite_or_perhaps_because_of_...

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