At 16:50 1999-06-21 -0400, Todd wrote:
>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.

Neither do I! But digging a hole and putting hot stones in it together
with the food, wich perhaps is/was the most common cooking method,
also leaves evidences. There ought to be some data on that somewhere.

- Hans