On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 23:59:24 -0700, David Lewandowski
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>         I know I'm a freak when it comes to the amount of food/calories I
> eat but
> as those I've sent pictures to can attest, I look like a caveman. Always
> have. When I walk at night people go to the other side of the street
> probably because they're not sure if I'm human!

Do you feel comfortable with this?
Do you experience women to feel comfortable with this
(just annother aspect)?

I remembered that i wanted to ask you this.
For opportunity I'll respond to some open points.

>>Roman armies were rather mobile and each legioner carried about one months
>>food with him (several kilos of grain and pans and millstones).
>
>        I don't think it was due to the food that they were mobile but from
>  fear
>of what would happen if they weren't. And they really were not that mobile
>in comparison.

The roman topic is quite off topic.... but subject to my interest.
You can be shure, that such a roman legion was the most mobile unit of
6000
men imaginable. Independent of food supply for 1 month.
How do you think would a soldier force feel and fight if beeing
without food
for only 1 week? (How would you do?)
Recharging the stocks of grain was easy as whole grains were available
in
all Europe, beeing the staple in all invaded countries. In celtic
countries
(today france, spain, southern germany, northern italy and much more)
and
germanic culture too. Ceasar describes how they crossed the Rhine by
quickly
building a whole bridge.

>        Not if they crossed plains which they did. The estimated 60-75
>million
>buffalo before their slaughter were definitely not scares. In addition to
>the many elk, deer, antelope, etc.

That's the fortune of the westwarders in north America
(no plains for germanic warriors).
I think we should consider, that the buffalos in such vast amounts (60
mio)
could come to existance only in absence of effective predators,
including
humans. Humans had no horses until recently and buffalos run.
When humans begun to have horses and rifles, the very vast herds
quickly
disappeared. 50 or 300 years are quick, compared to 10000, aren't
they?.
Before the human empowerment buffalos could be a constant but small
resource
for plain dwellers. Millions of people need different sources.

>        No kangaroos in Europe except in zoos. The fat content varies with
>the
>season. This can be an enormous fluctuation in some species.

Well, if the aboriginals sometimes discard a dead kangaro and
sometimes not
there must be times, when they are fat enough to allow at least a
partly
exploitation of the carcass.
You told that you do hunt. So, how much fat can you derive of which
animal
at most?

>I can assure you they have enough to satisfy any fat requirements my body
>might have.

Then you are a living example and can tell.
If you eat a hunted animal, you don't have to add any other caloric
sources
within a few days? This would contradict findings of e.g. Speth (see
quote
in neanderthin). Or did you forget to mention some caloric sources
like a
little bacon or beer (I'll not tell about the latter)?
For 5-6000 kcal you need approximately 1 lbs of fat daily (plus the
protein). Deer fat?
Or is it with you like Ray Audette told it to do?
Happyly hunting rabbits and eating "many" of them, but what really
brings
satiation is the fat of the agro-animals. Because rabbits "leave you
hungry
for annother one" after an hour or so, as he told.

Amadeus S.