Just as there are no atheists in foxholes, there are no vegetarians surviving in the wilds.
Au contraire on both counts!
i. I'm an atheist that's been in a foxhole. :AR15firin
ii. I'm a vegetarian living in Glasgow.
I claim my £5!
Just as there are no atheists in foxholes, there are no vegetarians surviving in the wilds.
where as buttock fat is relatively safe for the body to carry.
True, true, but we know from archaeological finds that usually big game is shot by multiple hunters to bring it down, or as in the buffalo jumps in America and pre ice age Britain, chased into a kill zone.
Similarly fish traps are built to catch the fish on the retreating tide.
cheers,
Toddy
Dogwood wasnt fat prized by native people? Also wasnt every part of the animal consumed including marrow fat also?
I was only kidding about the gorilla!
Ignoring the stomach bloating, these are members of the Khoikhoi Peoples ( I think thats the correct term) and the enlarged buttocks, medically known as Steatopygia (yes wiki is good isnt it)
Are there many (any) vegan diet tribes living in the wild? I'm not talking about some bunch of tipi dwelling aged hippies, I mean 'real' tribes?
As you note, we should leave aside the distended stomachs because that's not fat.
So focusing on the buttocks fat, the photos you present support the case I'm making. In none of them are the individuals carrying more than 10 or at most 15 pounds of excess fat.
In fact, because these folks are quite short (if my recollection is correct) the odds are good none of them are carrying more than 8 pounds of excess weight.
what the venus statues show, however else we may interpret them, is that obesity was around over 35,000 years ago or else they would never have known what a big woman looked like!
this is why this lady was so popular
or it might just have been an image of his wife to take with him when he went trading or hunting........we just don't know. It could even be an image of a female in a group that was being offered for marriage with another group.........though I have to admit the model does look as though she has borne children........the only certainly is that she was well fed and had time to dress her hair too
cheers,
Toddy
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Now the discussion of how our primitive diet was distributed among food types is a subject of intense and ongoing debate among anthropolgists, and of course it also varied based on region.
Hope I didn't come off saucy.
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Bring or build a net, and you're all set for a boring, but reliable diet.
Bottom line is, you need decent equipment, including a wood stove, fishing gear, .22 for small game, 12 ga. for birds and rabbits, .308 or .30-06 or similar for large game, and edged tools like axes, saws, KNIVES ( ) plus proper clothes, or the skills to make them, for winter.
I guess my point is that while your numbers may be good in theory, the plan would need to be better thought out than grueling hikes and hunts, day-to-day wood gathering etc. These activities would take their toll, and would end in disaster. Slow and steady wins the race.