New world agricultural societies were pretty vegan. Mesoamerican societies only really had turkeys, and the peasants wouldn’t have access to turkey meat regularly. You can survive off Tres hermanas (beans corn and squash) pretty well. Andean cultures were similar, they had llamas and guinea pigs but they were a very small part of a diet of mostly potatoes, quinoa, beans and tomato.
That’s fair. I’ll admit my knowledge of ancient civilizations and agriculture are very much old-world focused, and even in the new world I’m more familiar with the cultures in the modern day geographical bounds of the United States, with perhaps more hunting, trapping, and fishing than the large Mesoamerican civilizations and their highly populated cities.
New world agricultural societies were pretty vegan. Mesoamerican societies only really had turkeys, and the peasants wouldn’t have access to turkey meat regularly. You can survive off Tres hermanas (beans corn and squash) pretty well. Andean cultures were similar, they had llamas and guinea pigs but they were a very small part of a diet of mostly potatoes, quinoa, beans and tomato.
That’s fair. I’ll admit my knowledge of ancient civilizations and agriculture are very much old-world focused, and even in the new world I’m more familiar with the cultures in the modern day geographical bounds of the United States, with perhaps more hunting, trapping, and fishing than the large Mesoamerican civilizations and their highly populated cities.
So you are saying these ancient cultures didn’t use animal products? Yeah, I’m gonna call BS.