Rabbit starvation

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A paper I co-authored about the possible optimal diet of late upper paleolithic humans in the South West of France showed that the primary constraint on their diet was fat. It was a long time ago, but as I recall the prevalent meat was roe deer, and that's very lean. Solving the linear programming problem for the nutrients showed that they needed nuts to get the fat content.

Any chance for a link? I have a friend doing research in roe deer and she might find it interesting :)

(I did try to google it but didn't manage anything)

The paper doesn't contain all the details, and the paper is only available via library loan or a scribd link. I'm checking to see what we said in the published paper about fat content, but I suspect it won't be useful. It was originally a paper presented at a symposium in Oxford in Feb 1985, and it was not well received, so we didn't pursue the details.

I might be able to provide screenshots of the paper for your friend to skim, but I suspect it won't be relevant. Email me - contact details in my profile.

Ah thanks, I wouldn't want to inconvenience you it was just to tell her something along the lines of : "Hey did you know roe-deer would be the main source of protein for early hom(inins?)"

It's kinda sad how some not-so-old knowledge has essentially been lost already (as in, if it's ungooglable it's practically lost)..

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