That’s a harder question to answer, partly because fat doesn’t preserve well in the archaeological record.
A quick trawl through Google Scholar isn’t picking much up for the archaeological side of the question, although I’ve found a surprisingly large number of cites discussing the proportions of the apparently-obese “Venus” figurines sometimes found in Upper Paleolithic sites. This paper on the other hand seems to suggest that the answer is “no” for at least one group of modern foragers, at least to a first approximation (the sample size is rather small) and modulo the usual caveats re: modern foraging cultures.
That’s a harder question to answer, partly because fat doesn’t preserve well in the archaeological record.
A quick trawl through Google Scholar isn’t picking much up for the archaeological side of the question, although I’ve found a surprisingly large number of cites discussing the proportions of the apparently-obese “Venus” figurines sometimes found in Upper Paleolithic sites. This paper on the other hand seems to suggest that the answer is “no” for at least one group of modern foragers, at least to a first approximation (the sample size is rather small) and modulo the usual caveats re: modern foraging cultures.