Sujet : Re: Starch-rich plant foods 780,000 y ago: Evidence from Acheulian percussive stone tools
De : jtem01 (at) *nospam* gmail.com (JTEM)
Groupes : sci.anthropology.paleoDate : 03. Feb 2025, 15:49:40
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On 2/3/25 12:21 AM, Primum Sapienti wrote:
"Hunter-gatherers processed foods to preserve them.
Because some hunter-gatherer societies faced
uncertain food supplies, particularly in winter,
they developed techniques such as smoking and
drying to make foods last longer."
The problem here is that it's attributing motives to unobserved
populations of the distant past.
Maybe smoking was invented to save food for the winter, maybe
it was invented because it was bad enough attracting predators
to you homestead without keeping a number of rapidly decaying
reindeer carcasses lying about.
Plus it's yucky!
Can you imagine the kids?
"Mommy! Mommy! Can I play with it's eyeballs?"
Eew.
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