On the early human's menu: Mammoth and plenty of raw vegetables

[rangerrebew]

On the early human's menu: Mammoth and plenty of raw vegetables
Early modern humans consumed more plants than Neanderthals but ate very little fish

Date:
    August 4, 2017
Source:
    Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum
Summary:
    Scientists have studied the diet of anatomically modern humans, and are able to refute the theory that the diet of early representatives of Homo sapiens was more flexible than that of Neanderthals. Just like the Neanderthals, our ancestors had mainly mammoth and plants on their plates. The researchers were unable to document fish as part of their diet. Therefore, the international team assumes that the displacement of the Neanderthals was the result of direct competition.
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170804082912.htm

[the_doc]

In Texas, the diet evidently included dinosaur meat. 

[dfwgator]

Vegetarian = Bad Hunter

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Something tells me mammoth's were pretty delicious. We basically evolved to eat those suckers, too.

[truth_seeker]

Respectable vikings ate lingonberries. And lutefisk. Washed down with a flagon of fine mead.

[roamer_1]

On the early human's menu: Mammoth and plenty of raw vegetables
Early modern humans consumed more plants than Neanderthals but ate very little fish

Meh. Migratory and seasonal. If they were eating mammoth, of course they weren't eating fish. Different seasonal migratory times.

[GtHawk]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdX6fwfrULI

The only thing that comes to mind when I read early humans and mammoth together.

[Wingnut]

What I want to know what was on the Mammoth 's early diet?   Cavepeople and vegies

[Wingnut]

Vegetarian = Bad Hunter

On the hunt they always brought up the read. 

[SunkenCiv]

Meh. Migratory and seasonal. If they were eating mammoth, of course they weren't eating fish. Different seasonal migratory times.

One of the many kooky reasons once given for the supposed extinction of the Neandertal was that they ate too much meat and not any fish.

[roamer_1]

One of the many kooky reasons once given for the supposed extinction of the Neandertal was that they ate too much meat and not any fish.

They come up with all sorts of impractical nonsense. Too many pocket protectors and not enough calluses.

[Sanguine]

One of the many kooky reasons once given for the supposed extinction of the Neandertal was that they ate too much meat and not any fish.

Yes, and aren't they blaming Neanderthal genes for high cholesterol?

[berdie]

The biggest question for me is...who threw caution aside and tried the first bite?

We'll never know.

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[dfwgator]

One of the many kooky reasons once given for the supposed extinction of the Neandertal was that they ate too much meat and not any fish.

Everybody knows they died from smoking.

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