Early Humans Fancied Fish Supper

Galvasean

A new discovery indicates that people began eating fish well before the invention of useful fishing gear, suggesting that fish eating may have been born of necessity due to a rapidly expanding population.

Analysis of a bone from one of the earliest modern human in Asia, the 40,000-year-old skeleton from Tianyuan Cave near Beijing, has shown that at least this individual was a regular fish consumer.

This analysis provides the first direct evidence for the substantial consumption of aquatic resources by early modern humans in China

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Coriolanus

I remember reading "something, somewhere" about how it would be quite practical for early man to have caught migrating salmon, sturgeon (I think, the caviar fish anyway, baluga?) when they went up rivers with rudimentary nets. Well, not nets really, literally big blankets that could be stretched across a river. Afair they tested and it worked ok.

The theory was that man was fishing on a large scale long before fish hooks, spearheads etc very very widespread and hence started appearing in the midden piles etc.

lightening

Ever try an evolutionary diet or a neolithic diet? Not really a diet, but basically not eating processed and farmed food. Fish is incredibly important, seems to be one of the most natural things to eat.

You have to wonder, who was our first ancestral lunatic that picked up a prawn or an oyster and decided to eat it...