> On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:54:01 -0400, Todd Moody <[log in to unmask]> quoted
Robert W. Sussman:

>   "These early humans simply couldn't eat meat. If they couldn't eat
> meat,
> why would they hunt?"

The evidence has been accumulating that Australopithecines ate meat (and we
know that chimps do):

Schaller and Lowther claimed that Australopithecines "ate a large number of
small animals and were scavengers; they ate the remains of any large animals
they could find, and therefore were able to secure a large amount of meat."
(H. Leon Abrams, Jr., MA, EDS, Associate Professor Emeritus of Anthropology,
sourcing Schaller, George B and Gordon Lowther, "The Relevance of Carnivore
Behavior to the Study of Early Hominids," Southwest J Anthro, 25:307-41,
1969.) 

Study of Prehumans' Teeth Suggests That They Dined on Meat 
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD 
January 15, 1999
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9804EFDD1131F936A2
5752C0A96F958260

"The research indicated that the australopithecines, which walked upright
but also climbed trees, were already venturing out of their usual forest
habitat to forage in open grasslands. It also suggested that hominids were
consuming high-protein animal foods before the development of stone tools
for butchering."