So we’re expected to believe each man is carry a basket of rapidly deteriorating fruit (and tubers).

Or a knapsack of dried fatty meat with a fairly indefinite shelf life.

The Inca had a method of drying potatoes such that they were stable for multiple years.

	▲	funcDropShadow 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		But the Inca lived to late for this discussion. They already had advanced agriculture. For evolutionary terms, the time before agriculture and the time of the predecessors of homo sapiens are more relevant, because that time span was larger by orders of magnitude.

ux266478 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Fruit doesn't go bad in a day.

cgyvbunji 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Maybe they took dried fruit

Maybe they took both.

	▲	cgyvbunji 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ok.