Steve Meyers posted: > Fat in the Paleolithic Diet [..] Might this help? Kenneth L Feder in _The_Past_in_Perspective_ Mayfield 1996 isbn 1-55934-384-2 refers to megafauna hunting ~18-10kya. He cites finds of kills of woolly rhino & mammoth, various bison and deer and horse. Would 10kya old members of species that exist today have fat content much different from that of modern examples? Do we know anything about body fat of the now extinct woolly rhino and mammoth? If I recall correctly _PP_ acknowledges a wide variation of reliance on animal food sources; cites the extreme of the Eskimo/Inuit's heavy reliance on seal and other high fat animals, ~95% of diet; also extremes in other regions where HG folk lean toward vegetable food. Someone recently noted that reliance on modern HGs as models for paleolithic HGs is somewhat uncertain. Dick [log in to unmask] http://smith.syr.edu/~ddawson