Were our ancestors right? Here's how you're supposed to eat
A modern-day Flintstone excavates prehistory to teach us to eat like humans again
Bill Schindler is not just a buff, gung-ho daredevil. Sure, he has pranced around for days in desolate environments wearing animal skins and doing whatever it takes to survive, whether it be spearing a scorpion for supper, darting a wild boar with a Stone Age spear called an atlatl, or building a reed boat to navigate the sea.
In some ways it's all in a day's work for Schindler, who co-starred with survival expert Cat Bigney in the TV series The Great Human Race. Back home, in Maryland in the US, he is an associate professor of anthropology at Washington College, and has made a name for himself by teaching hands-on classes that recreate our ancestral past.
No wonder the National Geographic Channel contacted him, desperate for his expertise and charisma to feature in its series, which aimed to portray people's lives from 2.5 million to 4,000 years ago...
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