On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 09:37:55 -0800, Mary <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>I have been reading about the Coast Indians (along the Washington State
>Coast) and they ate both raw and cooked meat.

>>Or perhaps I would put it: I feel a closer (mystical? :-)
>>bond to my paleolithic ancestors eating cooked meat!

My vision is more like:

http://www.time-scapes.co.uk/thedowardcaves.html

Nowhere in the Welsh borders is prehistoric life so
well revealed as at the Doward caves and rock shelters. The caves are
carved by glaciers into the massive limestone cliffs that tower above the
River Wye. More than a thousand generations, roughly 30,000 years, have
passed since they were first occupied by itinerant hunters. The bones of
giant elk, mammoth and woolly rhinoceros have been found scattered
about the hearths around which the Old Stone Age hunters warmed
themselves and cooked their food. They moved where the great herds led
them, through ancient forests stretching from the Black Mountains down
across the Gwent Levels to Somerset.

Philip Thrift
http://www.paleofitness.com