Meat Consumption in Early Foragers' Diets Was Likely

question 53

Multiple Choice

Meat consumption in early foragers' diets was likely:

• A) very high, as cereal crops were unavailable until the onset of agriculture.
• B) very high, as meat was essential for cognitive advances in human evolution.
• C) less than a third of the diet, which mostly consisted of non-cereal plant items.
• D) less than a third of the diet, because the tools for advanced hunting did not appear until much later.
• E) negligible (made up about 0% of it).

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