Re: A.robustus diet included sedges


"Lee Olsen" <paleocity@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Chapstick wrote:
I am interested in our current diet, as extant humans, because I don't
beleive the bone marrow .... uh... i guess call it "theory" ... that some
say caused hss to expand our brains. very few cultures eat raw bone
marrow.

I live close enough to walk to a large site where tiny bone fragments
still cover the ground. It has probably been 200 years since the site
was last used by Native Americans. Not only is the evidence ubiquitous
in this area for marrow processing (going back thousands of years),
they smashed the bone up and boiled it to get every last bit of the
marrow out they possibly could. This is not a theory, it is a
demonstrated fact.


hello Lee,
<smile> well.. 200 years ago.. the Native Americans were being absolutely
starved out.. so it is no wonder they ate everything but the bones.
however, my point still is that they did not eat the marrow in the raw form,
and there is apparently only one extant human that DOES eat raw marrow..
that guy up in the Artic.. <smile> .
The raw part is simply because it must be a food that was eaten before
we conquered fire.. when our brain was expanding. And it would be ....
convienent... if it were a food that is still widely consumed by humanity.
*Sushi* is very expensive and is a delicacy and is served all over the place
in special restaurants. I have yet to run into a raw marrow bar.
Hey! I am not an AATer.... or stonethrower or anything else except a
skeptic. However, I do think that the dietary thing is one of Marc's better
arguments. The snorkel noses.. well...
regards,
chap


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