Based on the archeological evidence, id say quite alot of meat. They didn't paint pictures of cucumbers on their walls, and there are so many bones you could make a castle.

However, I dont think they would have eaten large game everyday, based on what I have heard speculated, and much of evidence of traps, id suggest that the majority of meat was small mammals, birds and fish. Those are more reliable than large game hunts, even though the return is less, you wouldnt want to starve pinning all your hopes on something so difficult.

As for only eating animals after activity??... We should be more active in general. But fish and birds dont take alot of energy to catch. More thinking and effort. You set a dozen or so traps across the bush, you'll get something each day of trap re-setting 8 times out of 10.

They certainly wouldnt have eaten beef everyday. They would have eaten a large variety of meats, with probably little resemblance to cows.

Having watched a few docos now about the stone age, and really thought about it more, I cant beleive anyone is anti-meat. It makes no sense, given we have clearly survived on it as our staple since our inception, and most hunter gatherers still do. We didnt make spears and bows and arrows to hunt potatoes!

Perhaps meat is unhealthy in the context of grain fed animals, vegetable oils, and a sea of acellular processed grain carbohydrates? Maybe even beef isnt the idea meat for us to eat? (I dont really eat it myself). IDK, all i know is that humans are supposed to eat lots of meat and also plenty of veg.. I cant see how that could be untrue if its been a central part of our diet for so long.

There may well be some wisdom in one idea- the occasional meat free meal, or low meat meal.

The large game hunt was very unreliable. Sometimes the small game traps would come up empty. If one didnt live on the coast, there would be no shellfish to gather. That only leaves bugs for "meat", which arent often too palatable, and veg.

The occasional meat low meal, or fat low meal is not out of the question evolution wise IMO.

Based on the archeological evidence, id say quite alot of meat. They didn't paint pictures of cucumbers on their walls, and there are so many bones you could make a castle.

I really hope future archaeologists are not going to make any assumptions about current nutrition based on modern work of art. Because there is something else we eat besides little green circles and blue triangles.

Why guess when you can read about modern hunter-gatherers?

Most tribes are over-researched by anthropologists. There are books/articles on what they eat and how they prepare it. They eat whatever they can hunt/fish and gather - whatever is found in their environment. They eat some protein each day, depending on what they kill/catch. I doubt they go a day without protein. But a lot of meat? It depends on a tribe and still I highly doubt it.

If you think that Paleo is meat, meat and nothing but meat - no, that's not Paleo, that's close to Inuit. And even then it would be fat, fish, blubber, meat, berries, bulbs, etc.

This is a very important question.

The prevailing view in the paleo community appears to be that animal products should be the predominant food in the paleo diet.

If we consider the variation in geography and climate where our ancestors existed we would find a similar variation of plant and animal life and subsequently in the availability of plant to animal food.

Given that calories were not as easily obtained those days, one can consider the effort in terms of economics - how many calories would have to be invested in order to obtain the next parcel of calories? Was it easier to obtain plant or animal food?

It is likely that the further from the equator our ancestors lived, the greater the dependance on animals for food.

The reality is that paleo may not be a single type of diet but composed of a subset of diets with an emphasis either on a) mainly plants, b) a balance of plants and animals or c) mainly animal products.

Determining ones paleo sub-type may be a matter of considering genetic ancestry and APOe gene status.

I seriously doubt we evolved eating cooked meat 3 times a day. I'm sure meat consumption was more periodic. It takes years to deplete our b12 stores which might suggest we had meat free periods during out evolution.

I've seen studies that discuss the fact that we humans can survive exclusively on proteins and animal fats, based on the fact that our bodies can produce approximately 150g of glucose per day to fuel the parts of the brain that cannot function with ketone bodies.

Also, another anecdotal story of a man with a colostomy bag discussed how meat was the only food he ate that did not have partially un-digested chunks left over (gross I know)

I know I eat a VLC paleo diet and my blood work, mood, and general well being have greatly improved.

www.jbprimal.com

What's more dangerous animal meat or GMO crops? Lol at vegan propoganda.

http://jackkruse.com/brain-gut-5-paradigm-drifts-paradigm-shifts-epi-paleo/