At 08:36 1999-11-07 EST, S.B. Feldman wrote:

>Did paleo man lift pounds or kilograms?

Very good question! All the world has agreed it was kilograms, (or
rather what he lifted should be estimated in kilograms) but
one nation has still not made this decision a reality although it is
45 years since they made that decision. And all others suffer from
that as members of this nation "forget" to translate when they are
communicating with the rest of the world.
Anyway, a person lifting 100 kg is probably stronger than the one
lifting 100 lbs.
What paleo man *did* lift was things that *needed* to be moved to
some other place (or another level). He did not lift anything else
but instead rested in the shade of a tree. He did not run somewhere
and back again without an errand either. But they had errands.
There is a good example in "The Continuum Concept" by Jean Liedloff.
Whe living in a Yekwana village she asked why they did not build an
aqueduct from upstream the river to the village so the women should
not need to carry water from the river (and the path was not so easy
to walk along at places). Oh yes, they said that would be an easy thing
to do, but the women protested because they always went in a group and
had a very good time together, talking, laughing and joking.

- Hans