On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:51:24 -0500, Todd Moody <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


>
> "The first reasonably good evidence of cooking is in the form of burned  
> bones at the Chinese site of Zhoukoudian dating sometime between 550,000  
> and 300,000 years ago.

Burned bones are also evidence that people were at that time bright enough  
to avoid attracting large toothy predatory animals.

Neolithic man is so dim that park rangers need to tell campers in grizzly  
country not to leave edible garbage where animals can get it.

William