THE DISTURBING THING THAT PEOPLE ATE DURING THE STONE AGE

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4. Given our druthers, we don't eat each other and long pig is not very nutritiious.

The meat would have been far too lean to sustain them, not enough calorie value.

Only two things seem to drive people to cannibalism: famine and religion.

The wild climate swings at the end of the last ice age might have caused famine. Another explanation might be the ritual defleshing of a body to complete the death process, something that has been found in rock art elsewhere.

However, the author is overstating the rigors of the hunter-gatherer life. Health and longevity did take a big dive, but that coincided with the appearance of agriculture whenever it appeared in any given area.