Keith Thomas wrote:

 > The point is, how would eggs have been eaten in the Paleolithic
 >(and they certainly were).  Eggs would have been seasonal - available for
 >3 months max.  Eggs would have been mostly from ground-nesting birds
 >(swans, ducks etc.).

Don't forget things like turtle eggs. And as we started as apes we were
climbing trees long before we were walking on the ground. So earlier we
would have simply been taking from tree nests.

Also we evolved in warmer climes. Do birds only lay eggs for three months
there? Chickens lay for more than three months. What about the wild
versions of what our domesticated chickens evolved from?

Don.