Originally Posted by EnglishDave

We have a recently started 'Reality' prog/Social Experiment here, 10,000 B.C. where 20 Brits are stripped of everything modern and sent back to the Stone Age in a Bulgarian forest - foraging, hunting, fishing. Skins, furs and wicker huts were provided - fire had to be mastered.
After 10 days, 5 had quit. After 12 a freak snow storm hit. As they were down to a few berries and the sum total of hunting and fishing was a few crawfish and a mouse, yes moUse, they were pulled out for 7 days.
How did our ancestors survive much worse to pass their heritage down to us - and how, as Western Civilization, did we become so soft and so removed?

Dave.