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Anthropology

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5. Not one of my classes in Anthropology. . .

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Oct 10, 2019, 01:25 AM

Oct 2019

. . .ever described hunting and gathering cultures as "living hand to mouth". There were many ways of storing and preserving food available to ancient peoples.

Towards the end of winter, supplies of certain foods may have run low and I am sure that some individual groups dealt with famine and starvation. However, dried grains and fruits and meats did exist as far back as the Paleolithic.

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Early humans stored bone marrow like tins of soup 400,000 years ago [View all] Judi Lynn Oct 2019 OP

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't bone marrow kept in bones? mitch96 Oct 2019 #1

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interesting Demovictory9 Oct 2019 #4

Not one of my classes in Anthropology. . . Collimator Oct 2019 #5