Re: Dispelling the "Man the Mighty Hunter" Myth

"ta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
> I suppose if we only studied the far northern tribes where plant life was
> not abundant and hunting was the primary means of survival, we might be
able
> to craft such a story. But these cultures are relatively recent ones and
> don't help much in understanding the habits of our original descendants
much
> further south. Even so, it is likely that *intentional* hunting did not
> surface until around 20,000 years ago, well into the story of human
> evolution.
>
...

Doesn't it trouble you that someone putting forward such a theory would
build it on such an obvious lie?

There's plenty of evidence of deliberate hunting long, long before that
date.  After all you don't make spears, etc. for "accidental" hunting?  Or
were there actually weapons and early humans lived on berries but made
spears and axes to butcher each other?  Perhaps they did, perhaps we've all
forgotten just how tasty roasted vegan can be.

And what about this
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/data/2001/08/01/html/ft_20010801.6.html
??
Suggests that hunting wasn't just common place but rather important more
than 20,000 years ago.

If you want to believe crap than for f**k sake believe some superstitious
nonsense, don't base it on lies that claim to draw on science, because you
don't just come across as being gullible, you also come across, like the
authors of such rubbish, as being profoundly dishonest.


Michael Saunby