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It's a big old bull porcupine.
這是只肥大的雄性老豪豬
Look how long it's quills are.
看它的刺有多長啊
The bushmen now have an evening meal.
叢林人的晚餐有了著落
I don't particularly like eating porcupine
我不是特別喜歡吃豪豬
but meat is meat
但是總歸還是肉
For Travis, the day's chase has shown him
一天的狩獵讓特拉維斯知道
that our ancestors could well have been successful
我們的祖先僅憑極其基本的武器
in using very basic weapons to hunt down their meat.
即可成功捕捉到他們所需的肉
They killed this porcupine with a spear
他們用一只長矛將豪豬
at the bottom of this hole that we've been watching them dig all day,
刺死在這個挖了一整天的通道底部
and a spear is a very simple technology -
而矛只是種極簡單的技術
these guys have metal blades on it,
他們在矛上裝了金屬刀片
but our ancestors would have used spears without metal.
但我們的祖先使用的矛沒有刀片
Even without stone, it will get the job done.
甚至連石頭也沒有 就能獵到食物
You have to be tough and clever to be able to live like this,
只有身手矯健警覺機靈 才有可能吃到肉
and our ancestors certainly were.
我們的祖先做到了
So our ancestors might well have hunted for meat,
既然我們的祖先可能曾獵食肉類
but when did they first start to eat it?
那他們第一次吃肉是在何時
