On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Philip Thrift wrote: > http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/9/0,5716,127619+9,00.html Here's another one: http://www.unesco.org/general/eng/about/office/external/beijing/pkm-site.htm > Perhaps our predecessors are more informatively called > "hunter-cookers". It's interesting that "Peking man" also apparently ate (and cooked) hackberry seeds. Out of curiosity I did a search on hackberry seeds and found the following interesting site, concerning the hunter-gatherers of the American plains, who coincidentally also ate hackberry seeds. http://twist.lib.uiowa.edu/plains/archaic.html Todd Moody [log in to unmask]