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Date: | Mon, 21 Jun 1999 16:50:17 -0400 |
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On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Hans Kylberg wrote:
> At 16:16 1999-06-20 -0700, Katie wrote:
> >Somebody want to remind me how long
> >humans, or pre-humans are thought to have had fire?
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> If I remember right it is something very long ago, like a million or more
> years, but the first _evidence_ of use for cooking is juast 30000 years ago.
What evidence would one look for, if early cooking amounted to
roasting meat or a potato on a stick? Or heating rocks and then
burying them with the food to be baked, as I learned to do in Boy
Scouts? What we have 30,000 years ago is the first evidence of
cooking vessels, but I see no reason to doubt that cooking itself
was around much longer than that.
Todd Moody
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