On the contrary, fervent imaginations on a perpetual quest for such arguments have constantly run up against inverse scenarios, in which no nutritional reason can justify the power of human concepts over the natural environment. Despite persistent obstinacy, the categorization of a space by a human society is never defined by the search for prey alone, as if this form of nourishment was never just a consequence, rather than the cause, for the nets drawn by a human group over its environment.
These food resources, which provide calories that allow the human species to be maintained, are found everywhere in fact, because they result from an intimate and profound interaction between living beings.
The motivations for these choices are rooted in a collective mindset that is maintained by tradition and practice, and is itself a reference to a mythical law. Better to die than to deny this law, as the plethora of existing religious taboos remind us every day.
Such simplistic ideas can result only from a lack of instruction concerning the relationship between nutrition and choice of habitat. Seeing these inhabitable regions as natural refuges for starving hunters is the consequence of a poor education that reduces extremely complex human phenomena, such as the French Revolution of , the discovery of America, or the rise of Nazism, to simplistic schemees.
The Yafteh rock shelter Lurestan, Iran was once filled to the top with the remains of goats hunted by Aurignacians between 40 and 30 thousand years ago 1. The pointed bladelets recovered from superimposed hearths evoke mouth-watering barbeques. A typology lover, and there are many, would observe a subtle point: at the base, the points are straight Arjeneh points, similar to the El Wad points of the Ahmarian , while at the top, carinated pieces abound characteristic of the Zagros Aurignacian, or Baradostian.
