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
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Nutrition.; Evolution (Biology).; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6733-6

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 obviousmeat is a nutrient-rich...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• How Do Paleoanthropologists Know About Human Diets in the Past?- The Traditional View of Big-Game Hunting in Human Evolution
• The Other Side of Protein
• The Great Protein Fiasco
• Excess Protein
• Were Big-Game Hunters (and Scavengers) Targeting Lipids Rather than Protein
• Protein and Pregnancy
• Other Problems with High Protein Intakes
• Additional Issues Concerning Protein as a Nutrient
• Protein and Taste
• Protein and Breast Milk
• Fat in Infancy
• DHA and the Developing Brain
• Social, Political, and Reproductive Factors.