> Note that nearly all of the meats listed are *agricultural* and never
> seen in paleolithic times.
> Amadeus

Cows, sheep, camels, goats, horses and dogs were all represented in the
Pleistocene and were prey species for humans.  Like other examples of
Pleistocene mega-fauna, their ability to store large amounts of fat is what
allowed them to survive ice-age conditions.

The relationship between their neotinized offspring and neotinized humans
 domestication ) is what allowed them to survive the Pleistocene extinctions
more successfully than any other species.  Without bacon, a billion pigs
 estimated world population) would become none very soon.

 see:                                                   Budiansky, Stephen,
                 The Covenant of the Wild: Why Animals Chose Domestication.
                                   New York: William Morrow & Co., Inc.,
1992.

Ray Audette
Author "NeanderThin"
www.NeanderThin.com