David A. Harding on Nostr: I'm unaware of any evidence of long term storage in any prehistoric society of large ...
I'm unaware of any evidence of long term storage in any prehistoric society of large amounts of honey or fat. The quantities needed to significantly extend human life during famine are huge and preservation using prehistoric methods was difficult and unreliable. It's much easier to keep animals alive than to store their fat. It's much easier to have bees guard their own honey against predation than to have humans guard it.
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