Israeli researchers studying the nutrition of Stone Age humans say the species spent some 2 million years as hyper-carnivorous “apex predators” that ate mostly the meat of large animals.
The study at Tel Aviv University, in collaboration with Portugal’s University of Minho, “may provide a broad basis for fundamental insights on the biological and cultural evolution of humans, according to a statement by TAU.
Contrary to most studies on the diet of ancient humans, which were mostly based on hunter-gatherer societies in recent centuries, the latest paper is largely derived from “the memory preserved in our own bodies, our metabolism, genetics and physical build,” according to Miki Ben-Dor of TAU’s Department of Archaeology. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/israeli-study-humans-were-hyper-carnivorous-apex-predators-for-2-million-years/