Or was it primarily walking? What would a good reason to run distance be for the first humans?
Or was it primarily walking? What would a good reason to run distance be for the first humans?
about as few as possible and still survive.
Neither, they lived in the ice age and got around on cross country skis
Ask the Greatest Athlete Ever Rich Froning, and you will have your answer. Froning is a true Neanderthal, but ripped, buff and shredded.
Eats shoots and leaves wrote:
Or was it primarily walking? What would a good reason to run distance be for the first humans?
Ask these guys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_oImagine: You wake from your slumber under the protective vault of dark basalt. Eyes are bleary, then clear: your first vision of the new day, 7294 B.C., is Emma Coburn, Colleen Quigley and Steph Garcia, lightly covered by random animal skins, and the sun glinting off their draped bodies and the lake on the near horizon.
Suddenly you hear the "Wsssppp,wwsssppp!!" that the neighboring birds use when a predator is approaching....
How would they know?
Once people radiated from Africa into different ecoregions, it depended totally on the geographic region and food source.
Inuits in winter would travel perhaps a few miles a day to hunt at seal breathing holes. Rainforest hunter-gatheres would traverse 5-6 miles a day (the males, anyway) looking for widely scattered prey. Savanna peoples like Aborigenes in Australia or desert peoples like the San of Southern Africa would have covered perhaps even more. Based on current anthropological observations, walking is probably preferable to running unless speed is needed.
The first humans probably lived like savanna peoples do today. My guess would be 5-10 miles a day for the males.
An extreme divergence shows up in pre-agricultural peoples between males and females. Men travel widely and hunt frequently. Females stick closer to residences. This is due to the fact that women are the only lifeline between life and death for a nursing child, and they cannot wander as widely.
There is this cool story about a family that ran from Communists, that were doing what all Communists try to - kill the family.
It apparently took place in the early 1930's or so. A father was beaten by Police State Russian thugs. They didn't kill him but he knew they would be back. So he escaped with his family to the Mountains. WWII broke out and the family lived in the wilderness for some 4 decades. One tale mentions how the son would run down smaller ruminants for food. How many hours and miles, don't know. But cool story nonetheless.
There is this cool story about a family that ran from Communists, that were doing what all Communists try to - kill the family.
It apparently took place in the early 1930's or so. A father was beaten by Police State Russian thugs. They didn't kill him but he knew they would be back. So he escaped with his family to the Mountains. WWII broke out and the family lived in the wilderness for some 4 decades. One tale mentions how the son would run down smaller ruminants for food. How many hours and miles, don't know. But cool story nonetheless.
The Lykovs:
The Lykovs:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt2AYafET68
Run_from_Communists wrote:
There is this cool story about a family that ran from Communists, that were doing what all Communists try to - kill the family.
It apparently took place in the early 1930's or so. A father was beaten by Police State Russian thugs. They didn't kill him but he knew they would be back. So he escaped with his family to the Mountains. WWII broke out and the family lived in the wilderness for some 4 decades. One tale mentions how the son would run down smaller ruminants for food. How many hours and miles, don't know. But cool story nonetheless.
Early humans ran about 20 mpw. Lacking the level of scientific research we have today, they were unable to realize the benefits of higher mileage. The world record of 3:27:42 of Pheidippides was not broken until several hundred years later when Wameis Jinston trained using a higher mileage approach. He was later eclipsed by Dennis Kimetto, who trains using more mileage.
Eats shoots and leaves wrote:
What would a good reason to run distance be for the first humans?
Couldn't make the rock-throwing team.