My thanks to Bernard for typing all that!

However my feeling is that Binford and Flannery put too much emphasis on the large game hunting and virtually ignored marine resources.

We have huge shell middens in both South Africa and Etria that date back 100,000 years. There is no reason to believe that humans lost their taste for seafood after leaving Africa. The problem is that in most other areas of the world the late Pleistocene coast line is inundated.

The 'coastal migration theory' for human entry into the Americas is a tacit admission that those Pleistocene humans were living off marine resources. One of the largest Clovis camp sites, Gault, shows that those Clovis mammoth hunters were also gathering wild grasses and consuming snails, turtles and probably any other small animal that they could catch.