On Mon, 6 Nov 2000 12:48:02 -0500, Amadeus Schmidt <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Winter food is sparse and requires food stocks - what the mesolithic h/g
>population did with hazelnuts to a big extent.
>Or eating winter animals.



http://www.human-nature.com/darwin/books/tattersall.html
...
  At this [Cro-Magnon] site, and others, it appears that the inhabitants
  dug pits in the permafrost: natural freezers in which meat was stored.
  This innovation may have allowed a semisedentary existence, the
  inhabitants living off their reserves of meat even when the
  migratory herds on which they depended had moved away.
...

Philip Thrift
http://www.paleofitness.com