Subject: Re: [Homestead] [MSM] Diet of the Eskimo was Was Any vegetarians...what's your plan? now : Soy
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:18:49 -0700 (PDT)
Don - this acts like this thread has been ongoing? It's
the first time the list has appeared in my inbox in
days! Anybody know whassup?
Sandy
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:39:36 -0700, Don Bowen KI6DIU
wrote:
>
> At 10/18/2007, you wrote:
> >4. The women pick a lot of the food, including greens
> and berries of many
> >kinds. However since you don't need to bond with the
> boys, throw pointy
> >sticks and incur a lot of danger from this form of
> food gathering male
> >anthropologists often miss that just like in most
> cultures, women provide
> >about 80% of the staple foods as part of their daily
> routines.
>
> In most HG cultures women gathered most of the food.
> Men hunting brought
> in large chunks of food at once but over time women
> provided a steady source.
>
>
>
> Don Bowen Awl Knotted Up