{"id":377,"date":"2006-04-22T15:12:18","date_gmt":"2006-04-22T20:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=377"},"modified":"2020-01-02T12:24:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T17:24:21","slug":"when-people-were-cat-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/when-people-were-cat-food\/","title":{"rendered":"When people were cat food"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s an interesting piece in The Chronicle Review<\/em> by anthropologist Donna Hart, who surveys the evidence and makes the claim that early man was mostly prey, not predator. She writes:<\/p>\n

Large-scale, systematic hunting of big herbivores for meat may not have occurred any earlier than 60,000 years ago \u00e2\u20ac\u201d over six million years after the first hominids evolved.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, we were being hunted by a variety of toothy critters.<\/p>\n

My study of predation found that 178 species of predatory animals included primates in their diets. The predators ranged from tiny but fierce birds to 500-pound crocodiles, with a little of almost everything in between: tigers, lions, leopards, jaguars, jackals, hyenas, genets, civets, mongooses, Komodo dragons, pythons, eagles, hawks, owls, and even toucans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Toucans. Our ancestors were eaten by toucans. I’ll never look at Froot Loops<\/a> the same way again . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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