The Truth About the REAL Paleo Diet

Join Revolut and get $20 here https://get.revolut.com/z4lF/dandavis Offer expires 6 months from 20/09/2026. Exclusions apply. $20 bonus paid by Revolut subject to the terms and conditions found: https://www.revolut.com/en-US/legal/partner-sign-up-bonus/ What did people really eat during the Ice Age and could eating mammoths make someone fat? How do archaeologists reconstruct ancient diets? What about the Gravettian Venus figurines? Were their larger bodies realistic, symbolic, pregnant or deliberately exaggerated? Could mammoth meat and fat create periods of abundance? Did mobile Ice Age hunter-gatherers always remain lean, and does ketosis prevent body-fat gain? From the mammoth steppe to the Mediterranean coasts, the evidence reveals that there was never one single Paleolithic diet. *If you enjoy my videos please consider supporting the channel* Become a YouTube Channel Member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUVwT8zcS5Z_rYXnpomlbfg/join Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dandavisauthor All my books on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3xngwz5 *Sources* D. G. Drucker et al., Isotopic Analyses Suggest Mammoth and Plant in the Diet of the Oldest Anatomically Modern Humans from Far Southeast Europe (2017) R. J. Johnson et al., Upper Paleolithic Figurines Showing Women with Obesity May Represent Survival Symbols of Climatic Change (2021) S. B. Eaton and M. Konner, Paleolithic Nutrition: A Consideration of Its Nature and Current Implications (1985) K. Milton, Hunter-Gatherer Diets: A Different Perspective (2000) A. Revedin et al., Thirty Thousand-Year-Old Evidence of Plant Food Processing (2010) M. Mariotti Lippi et al., Multistep Food Plant Processing at Grotta Paglicci Around 32,600 Cal BP (2015) J. D. Speth and K. A. Spielmann, Energy Source, Protein Metabolism, and Hunter-Gatherer Subsistence Strategies (1983) A. K. Outram, A New Approach to Identifying Bone Marrow and Grease Exploitation (2001) R. E. M. Hedges and L. M. Reynard, Nitrogen Isotopes and the Trophic Level of Humans in Archaeology (2007) M. P. Richards and E. Trinkaus, Isotopic Evidence for the Diets of European Neanderthals and Early Modern Humans (2009) A. G. Henry et al., Microfossils in Calculus Demonstrate Consumption of Plants and Cooked Foods in Neanderthal Diets (2011) B Revedin, Thirty thousand-year-old evidence of plant food processing, (2010) Mariotti Lippi M, Multistep food plant processing at Grotta Paglicci (Southern Italy) around 32,600 cal BP ( 2015 ) Horton TJ, Fat and carbohydrate overfeeding in humans: different effects on energy storage, (1995) J. Zilhão et al., Last Interglacial Iberian Neandertals as Fisher-Hunter-Gatherers (2020) L. Kindler et al., Large-Scale Processing of Within-Bone Nutrients by Neanderthals, 125,000 Years Ago (2025) H. Bocherens et al., Reconstruction of the Gravettian Food-Web at Předmostí I Using Multi-Isotopic Tracking of Bone Collagen (2015) P. Wojtal et al., The Earliest Direct Evidence of Mammoth Hunting in Central Europe: The Kraków Spadzista Site (2019) K. D. Hall et al., Energy Expenditure and Body Composition Changes After an Isocaloric Ketogenic Diet (2016) L. McDermott, Self-Representation in Upper Paleolithic Female Figurines (1996) O. Soffer et al., The “Venus” Figurines: Textiles, Basketry, Gender, and Status in the Upper Paleolithic (2000) L. Klaric, Female Figurines, Climate Sensationalism, and Archaeological Shortcomings (2021) M. P. Richards et al., Stable Isotope Evidence for Increasing Dietary Breadth in the European Mid-Upper Paleolithic (2001) E. J. Guiry et al., Mesolithic Dietary Heterogeneity on the European Atlantic Coastline (2015) *Thank you to the artists* Ancient Europeans https://www.instagram.com/ancienteuropeans2/ *Video Chapters* 00:00 Mammoth Makes You Fat 01:31 Sponsorship 02:54 There Were Many Paleolithic Diets 04:49 Eating Animals 05:44 Eating Plants 08:09 Eating Fat to get Fat 10:58 Venus Figurines 15:10 Not Enough Food 16:24 Too Mobile 18:51 Ketosis Makes You Skinny 20:51 Gynoid Fat Distribution 23:33 The Next Venus Figurines