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Philip Thrift <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 22 May 2002 18:48:37 -0500
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On Wed, 22 May 2002 18:09:58 -0400, Todd Moody <[log in to unmask]>
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>But, based on study of contemporary hunter-gatherers, we do have
>reason to believe that plants were a substantial part of the
>diet.

One has to take into account the difference in environment
(animal and plants) as well as tools of paleolithic and modern hg's,
and more importantly the relative availability of herds of game,
and see that modern hg diet may not be a good model for paleo hg's.

Philip Thrift

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