Marilyn wrote:

> You mean all the animal? Do you think they had the luxury to discard the
> leaner portions?

I had the same question, see
http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?A2=ind0103&L=paleofood&P=R5918

Of course all the westonaprice and other researchers emphasise how
important
the animal fat was and how hunters are after it.

That's logical.
Because wild animals out of arctic regions and out of very cold winters
simply *have so little* . A true limiter for animal food percentages for
huntergathering people. Even if you included the whole animal fat like
subcutaneous, organ, even the fat in the bones.

Some people like to to fantasize about the very high fat deposits and
enormous amounts that all the hunters would have eaten.
That is a true picture for the arctic, where the animals are really fat.
Possible too for such groups of paleolithic people which were living in
the far glaciated north.

Everywhere else it would have been necessary to massacre enormous
numbers of animals just to get the fat (plus a little usable protein,
probably only some high vitamin organs). And then discard most of the
carcass.
If this way of living would have been reality, paleolithic humans would
have needed gigantic large territories to live from. Limiting their
population to very few.
Any yes, of course the leftover meat can be dried, for later. Good idea.
And where should the calories come from later, in order to eat the dried
meat? It would be totally without fat then.

If you are looking for a whole animal energetic analysis, I may remind
you to http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?A2=ind0008&L=paleodietP=416

I have no objection to emulating a Inuit huntergathering diet like
Stephansson managed to do for one year in his all meat experiment with
farmed fat and meat. Or a neanderthal diet like european neanderthals in
times out of the thermals (warm phases) had.

For the yearmillions in the african savannah IMHO it must have been
different. Not only because of the physiological constraints that are
there. But also because humans (and humanoids) would have headed for a
more comfortable diet. For Stephansson, even as he was constrained to
meat and fat *only* , it  was 18% calories from protein.

regards

Amadeus