Fish Has Been On Our Menu For 40,000 Years

Video: Fish Has Been On Our Menu For 40,000 Years

Video: Fish Has Been On Our Menu For 40,000 Years
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Fish Has Been On Our Menu For 40,000 Years
Fish Has Been On Our Menu For 40,000 Years
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Fish was part of the menu of our primitive ancestors who lived on earth 40,000 years ago. At least one prehistoric man ate fish regularly, a new study has found.

Fishing at the time must have cost people considerable effort, scientists say. Because, according to found artifacts, our prehistoric ancestors did not have sophisticated tools.

The peak of the achievement in the tools of labor from 50 thousand years ago were the stone blades with which the primitives hunted.

Scientists have analyzed the chemical composition of collagen protein in ancient human skeletons found in the Tian Yuan Cave in China.

"This analysis provides the first direct evidence of the consumption of water resources by primitive people in China," said Michael Richards of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

His associates have a theory that eating fish may have helped increase the volume of the human brain.

According to them, the introduction of animal meat proteins in the human diet, 2 million years ago, is an important factor in increasing the size of our mental organ.

It is possible that the large population has forced prehistoric people to start getting food from the sea, experts say.

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