<<The particular thread of ape, or pre ape that in time became us, developed in East Africa, more or less around the equator. There is no "dead of winter" so no lack of food due to that. There are droughts though and there must have been times when there were hardly any veggies and fruit.>>

Eva,

IIRC, the climate in Africa was not the same as it is today... there were no deserts... they 'developed' AFTER the last ice age... it used to be very green and lush.

<<Do you remember that 10-15 years ago some tourists found a well preserved man from 5.000 years ago up in the mountains between Austria ... Switzerland and Italy... they found that his two last meal had been ibex meat and meat from a deer. >>

His stomach also contained grain.

Dedy