Thu, Dec-12-02, 11:29
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Plan: mostly paleo
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BF:also don't care
Progress: 100%
Location: West Coast, USA
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yes, plenty of evidence, including evidence in remaining modern hunter-gatherer groups. Dried fruits, cured meats, nuts are likely storage items, though surely those stores were running out for many groups by late winter and the diet became nearer 100% meat in the coldest zones in late winter and spring. Meat can be gathered at any time of year--in fact, if it's a terribly hard winter, you're fairly likely to run across frozen carcasses and be able to scavenge rather than hunt--a very smart energy choice. Root vegetables such as carrots and hardy leaf vegetables such as kale and dandelion (as I just mentioned elsewhere) are available all winter long where I live and would have been many places we evolved. We did a lot of evolving along seashores in tropical locales after the last ice age receded, so indeed fresh fruits and veggies would have been available to many of our ancestors.
Our ancestors were plenty smarter than us about finding ways to gather and preserve food supplies, I suspect. They didn't have a Safeway down the street, so they had to be smarter!
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