On Thu, 7 Dec 2000 19:15:38 -0400, matesz <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >In Jean Auel's book, the potential loss of fat was dealt with in some cases >by cooking the animal, such as rabbit, with the skin on. Also, people >burned dung, kindling, and dried shrubbery from many plants for fuel. >Auel >got some information from paleo anthropologists that suggests that people >may have rendered the animal fat in leather sacks hung over the fire and >wet >first so they would not burn. It is interesting the way she describes it. There is some speculative experimenatation of this at http://www.wynja.com/arch/cooking.html (but leave out the potatos :-). There is a whole genre of Ice Age or Paleo-fiction http://www.paleobook.com Philip Thrift http://www.paleofitness.com