Probably not. Several evolutionary hypothesis, suggest that reliance on hunting is what made us different from the rest of the great apes[1][2]. There is literally an extinction event caused by our hunting[3]. Where early humans showed up megafauna quickly went extinct.[4]
(Without having any knowledge on this but making assumptions… vibing lol)
I think early humans were probably a mix of both. The goal was survival, and idk what sort of language we had either, so just eat, reproduce, etc. Oo ahh ahh goo goo gah gah -rub armpit- ahhh ooo ahh (wine making instructions after gather berry’s lol)
Once we figured out agriculture and farming we didn’t need to gather and hunt.
Unlikely, unless by "gathering" you mean scavenging kills and eating carrion. Developing the large fatty brain without a herbivorous digestive system suggests that our ancestors ate dead animals. The modern human digestive system is more similar to a wolf's than a chimp's.
There's also not much evidence that there were enough human available calories present year round to support a nomadic vegetarian population. Yes, apples existed, but the current evidence suggests humans only started eating lots of them after we wiped out the mastadon.
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[ 1.9 ms ] story [ 33.7 ms ] thread[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting_hypothesis [2]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_running_hypothesis [3]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction [4]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megafauna#Megafaunal_mass_exti...
I think early humans were probably a mix of both. The goal was survival, and idk what sort of language we had either, so just eat, reproduce, etc. Oo ahh ahh goo goo gah gah -rub armpit- ahhh ooo ahh (wine making instructions after gather berry’s lol)
Once we figured out agriculture and farming we didn’t need to gather and hunt.
There's also not much evidence that there were enough human available calories present year round to support a nomadic vegetarian population. Yes, apples existed, but the current evidence suggests humans only started eating lots of them after we wiped out the mastadon.