Decoding Early Human Diets: Rethinking the 'Macho Caveman' Stereotype

Archaeological Insights Challenge Notions of Meat-Heavy Diets

Reassessing long-standing assumptions about early human diets, recent archaeological findings¹ from burial sites in the Peruvian Andes between 9,000 and 6,500 years ago suggest a surprising narrative. Rather than the widely held belief in high-protein, meat-heavy diets, it appears that our ancestors were predominantly gatherers, relying on plant-based nu…