On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Amadeus Schmidt wrote:

> Try to meet a wild boar in the woods "naked with a sharp stick".
> It could possibly convince you to better collect some hazels.

That's a good point, and it may be a bit of evidence for the
theory that early hominids were scavengers before they were
hunters.

> I just doubt Ray's answer in Neanderthins Q&A part that
> as vegetarian one couldn't live a paleo-lifestyle.
> The reasons given there (protein and iron) are weak.

I think the other part of Ray's answer is that there are few, if
any, places in the world where the vegetation could keep a
vegetarian alive *year-round*.  If this is correct, it entails
that actual paleolithic people were *never* vegetarians.  And if
that is true, the vegetarianism would have to be seens as a
dietary innovation.

Todd Moody
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