If you try to picture a paleo diet, scenes of a caveperson tearing hunks of animal flesh off a bone probably come to mind. But new analysis of remains from an ancient Andean culture has revealed that these hunter-gatherers mostly survived off plants, not meata blow for die-hard paleo-gym-bros everywhere.
Hard materials like bone or stone are preserved better than plants, and simply finding these materials at a site doesn't tell researchers anything about how much meat people actually ate. It's likely that the evidence for hunting has been overinflated, according to Haas, leaving a lot of room for interpretation and misconception.
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