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