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To: null and void
It's an additional food source in a famine.

Hmmm. . .makes sense, but I'll have to think about that. Assuming they had domesticated cattle, it would seem the first thing they would do is eat some of the cattle as well as some of the plants the cattle ate.

120 posted on 12/11/2006 12:53:30 PM PST by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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Yes, cattle are food, but a society that can milk cattle is stronger than a society that is dependent only on their meat, as it has a more stable food source. Stone age societies couldn't slaughter cattle every day.


122 posted on 12/11/2006 12:56:50 PM PST by Alter Kaker ("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
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