Geoffrey Purcell wrote:
>
> In short, there is no evidence whatsoever that cooking was instrumental re
> human brain-development(though undoubtedly, in terms of cultural
> development, later on), and the prevailing evidence clearly indicates that
> cooking was invented only c.250,000 years ago.
>
Surely taxes and war are evidence of cultural degeneration.
Evidence of fire still /= cooking.
Burnt bones is not evidence of cooking!
I have lived in a true wilderness where there were toothy scavengers,
and I always burnt bones, otherwise the scraps of rotting meat attracts
the pests.
The archaeologists seem to lack wilderness experience.
William