We’ve all heard a lot on the news about the so-called ‘paleolithic’ or ‘caveman’ diet. In a nutshell, to the uninitiated, it seems to involve eating a lot of meat.

The archaeological and ethnographic records (which we’ve studied) indicate that this is not really how people in the paleolithic ate.
What is the evidence and what does it tell us about how people really subsisted?
In answering, make sure to consider whether and how geography mattered.