@deshipu
Anthropology isn't my strongest point, I'll admit, but didn't those tribes like the Berbers emerge after the end of the Paleolithic era? There aren't any references to them I can find prior to ~10000BCE. Obviously their culture would have emerged from what occurred before, however those tribes are not Paleolithic (nor can I find evidence that they eat meat at the same rate as Westerners, much less at the rate of a high meat diet).
@deshipu
All good points, however I'm not seeing how that contradicts my OP? I completely agree that arbitrary dates don't even begin to tell the story of human history, yet we're still talking about tribes of people who do not engage in "paleo diet" behavior - they're reacting to the material conditions of their existence as humans always have. If anything, wouldn't the absence of a clear paleo era as you've stated lend less legitimacy to the diet, not more?
@deshipu
I suppose what I'm trying to get at is that my initial "random" thought was that the paleo diet makes no sense. At the least, the term "paleo" is ridiculous when you look at human history.
I don't know that we're in disagreement on that, it's a fad diet after all... we seem to be getting bogged down in details which are interesting, just not damning to my statement imo.
I could have said it better in the first place of course, but it all started as just a random post.
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