But according to a study from 2021 by anthropologists from Israel's Tel Aviv University and the University of Minho in Portugal, modern hunter-gatherers have given us the wrong impression of what we once ate. "This comparison is futile, however, because 2 million years ago hunter-gatherer societies could hunt and consume elephants and other large animals ?" while today's hunter gatherers do not have access to such bounty," researcher Miki Ben?Dor from Israel's Tel Aviv University explained when the research was published.