Amadeus Schmidt wrote:

>When cooking came up, without any pots or pans, frying and boiling was not
>possible, maybe meats have just been hung over the fire.

Boiling is possible. Fill a leather skin or bladder with water and hang it
up. Add pebbles which have been heated in a very hot fire.  The water will
boil.

Cecilia Thornton-Egan.

PS Incidentally, I live in Australia and if there is any population which
has been genetically isolated for millennia, it is the Australian
aborigines (Kooris). They went straight fromm the stone age to European
foods no more than two hundred years ago.  In fact, about ten years ago a
tribe who had never seen white people was discovered in the central
deserts. European food and culture have wreaked havoc on the Koori race.