He also showed us his latest project: a small slaughterhouse that he wants to lease, on a cliff over the sea; abandoned decades ago, falling into ruin, and sinister, with primitive meat hooks and bloodstained walls, it had struck him as a venue for temporary, or maybe permanent, installations, and he wanted suggestions about which artists to invite.
The prevailing theory is that endurance running allowed primitive humans to incorporate meat into their diet.
One article noted a "circle of expensive automobiles surrounding an open campfire, where the bronzed and brightly blanketed owners are cooking meat in the primitive style".
In fact, early explorers found that malnutrition and deficiency problems like scurvy could be avoided by adopting a "primitive" diet of fresh fish and meat, with occasional ground plants and berries.
The origin of the genus Homo in Africa signals the beginning of the shift from increasingly bipedal apes to primitive, large-brained, stone tool-making, meat-eaters that traveled far and wide.
It's one of those meat textures, strangely velvety, that summon up a primitive, guilty reaction.
In the 1960s, she shocked the primate research world with the discoveries that humankind's closest relative--long portrayed as primitive plant eaters--uses tools and hunts other monkeys for meat.
Here, primitive hominins poked their tiny heads into animal dens to scavenge abandoned kills, fileting meat from the bones of mammoths and wolves with crude stone tools and eating it raw.
After a caveman showered and shaved in the morning, he would club his wife over the head - the primitive demonstration of affection prior to kissing -- and set out to find some meat.
There is something primordially simple about slapping a piece of meat, fish or poultry down on a grill and turning it slowly, as primitive man must have done tens of thousands of years ago.
True barbecue involves the slow cooking for meat over a low, smoky fire, a pinstaking process that can take hours and, primitive though it may seem, requires a zealous devotion to detail.
