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