Prehistoric man ate pandas

[accadacca]

China's beloved national symbol - the panda - may have been seen quite differently by ancient humans: as food.

A Chinese scientist said that humans used to eat pandas. In a newspaper interview, Wei Guangbiao said prehistoric man ate the bears in what is now part of the city of Chongqing in southwest China [Credit: Xinhua]

Scientist Wei Guangbiao says prehistoric man ate pandas in an area that is now part of the city of Chongqing in southwest China.

Wei, head of the Institute of Three Gorges Paleoanthropology at a Chongqing museum, says many excavated panda fossils "showed that pandas were once slashed to death by man."

The Chongqing Morning Post quoted him Friday as saying: "In primitive times, people wouldn't kill animals that were useless to them" and therefore the pandas must have been used as food.

But he says pandas were much smaller then.

Wei says wild pandas lived in Chongqing's high mountains 10,000 to 1 million years ago.

The Chinese government invests greatly in studying the native species and trying to ensure its survival. Pandas number about 1,600 in the wild, where they are critically endangered due to poaching and development. More than 300 live in captivity, mostly in China's breeding programs.

Source: People's Daily Online [October 16, 2012]

[Deathcricket]

Wei says wild pandas lived in Chongqing's high mountains 10,000 to 1 million years ago.

Give or take 100 years....

[DOSS]

Wei says wild pandas lived in Chongqing's high mountains 10,000 to 1 million years ago.

I don't get how they can say this.. the earth is only 6000 years old

[Byron]

EVERYTHING that crawled, slithered or trod was food back then. More recently, I read that the Anasazi ate mice...bones, fur, guts and all.

[rockgremlin]

Give or take 100 years....

Just like how the CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere have increased by 2,000ppm in the last 50 years....give or take 200,000ppm. As a human race we've come a long way, but I believe we think we've come a lot farther then we have.

[rockgremlin]

EVERYTHING that crawled, slithered or trod was food back then. More recently, I read that the Anasazi ate mice...bones, fur, guts and all.

So the Anasazi were owls then? Anasazi disappearance solved: they just flew away.

[Byron]

So the Anasazi were owls then? Anasazi disappearance solved: they just flew away.

LOL, that's funny! Seriously, It was a scientific, very well put together book studying the ruins in Montezuma Valley, mostly. I believe this was the book that "confirmed" the cannibalism that got the Hopi all upset. They figured it out by studying human dookie, and it was full of mice fur and bones. Mice Mcnuggets.

[denaliguide]

probably tasted like chicken.

[tmartenst]

Sounds delicious.

[stefan]

Just like how the CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere have increased by 2,000ppm in the last 50 years....give or take 200,000ppm.

not even close. probably should choose an example better than one we've actually measured pretty precisely.
mauna loa measurements have increased from about 315 ppm in 1960 to 395 ppm in 2012.
this year the arctic has been measuring the highest levels ever in recorded history at over 400 ppm.



http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/history.html

[Iceaxe]

[rockgremlin]

not even close. probably should choose an example better than one we've actually measured pretty precisely.
mauna loa measurements have increased from about 315 ppm in 1960 to 395 ppm in 2012.
this year the arctic has been measuring the highest levels ever in recorded history at over 400 ppm.



http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/history.html

^^^^ This $hit belongs in the environmental thread. I'm not sure what this has to do with the eating habits of prehistoric man. Please post on topic.