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Originally Posted by chuckm
Again, my point is simply that I seriously doubt that 2 hours of hunting could consistently provide meat.
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The claim re hunter-gatherer cultures is that about 2 hours a day was/is devoted to gathering food, not necessarily meat. Even here & now, it wouldn't be impossible for someone with the knowledge, especially given the great number of quite edible things that we seldom if ever eat.
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If it were that easy, why would neolithic man tie up valuable time and resources by working to domesticate cattle and protect them from predation?
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To have something to do with all that free time :-) But if you look at the history of domestication, the first domestic animals - dogs, then horses - were probably aids to hunting. Then other animals seem to have been kept as much for milk & wool as for meat.