The Paleoanthropology and Archaeology of Big-Game Hunting Protein, Fat, or Politics? /

• Main Author: Speth, John D. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Nutrition.; Evolutionary biology.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.

Since its inception, paleoanthropology has been closely wedded to the idea that big-game hunting by our hominin ancestors arose, first and foremost, as a means for acquiring energy and vital nutrients. This assumption has rarely been questioned, and seems intuitively obvious—meat is a nutrient-rich...

Table of Contents:

• How Do We Reconstruct Hunting Patterns in the Past?
• Big-Game Hunting in Human Evolution: The Traditional View
• The Other Side of Protein
• Were Big-Game Hunters Targeting Fat?
• Protein and Pregnancy
• Other Problems with High-Protein Intakes
• Protein and Taste
• Protein and Breast Milk
• Fat in Infancy
• DHA and the Developing Brain
• Big-Game Hunting: Protein, Fat, or Politics?.