Bruce Kleisner wrote:
to my:
>>Paleo humans didn't fry. No pans. Even no pots.
>>I even doubt if much was roasted over a fire. The fat would have been
>>lost, and fat is essential.
>>Think of any contemporary huntergathering population, how they eat meat.
>>Inuit eat it raw.
>

Bruce:
> Sounds like arm-chair science there. We have lots of evidence
> that primitive humans cooked food regularly over fire. Inuits
> are one group.

Bruce, pans are of metal. Metal usage is less than 6000 years old.
Pottery is neolithic, less than 12000 years old.

We have evidence of stone hearths. Up to 400,000 years old.
But no evidence of roasting anything over it.
Can be just fireplaces. There are some seldom fire signs on bones. Can
be just thrown into the fire (to use a wooden stick to roast isn't too
handy, is it?)
Anyway, when roasting meat over a fire, you would loose the little fat
it has - 4%. The availability of fat (or carb) decides how much  meat
could be eaten by humans, without getting into protein toxicity (rabbit
starvation). It doesn't make sense to roast meat over a fire, except
when you eat very little percent of your diet as meat.

It *is* possible to cook meat in a pit in the ground. I assume it has
been done. This is cooking in watery environment, less than 100 deg C
(no trans fats, that was the topic).

We have "reddened areas" probably indicating fire usage as long as 1.5
or so mio years ago (Wrangham references such). Possibly for cooking
tubers in the fire.

The point is not about cooking. But roasting, frying at high
temperatures. And with lots of fat.
That's as paleo as eating honey.
May have occured from time to time. Certainly not everyday.

regards

Amadeus