On Wed, 6 Dec 2000 11:40:33 -0500, Amadeus Schmidt <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>On Wed, 6 Dec 2000 06:03:48 -0500, Philip Thrift <[log in to unmask]>
>wrote:
>
>>Another article on homo erectus hearths and cooking:
>>
>>   http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/0599toc/5feature3-fire.shtml
>
>Meat certainly?
>Fire is what greatly enhances the availability of *tubers*.
>And tubers are a much better available food resource as animals
>(they are unevitable anyway, because of the fat/protein toxicity problem).

While cooking of some tubers or other plants is more speculative, the
extensive remains of big game bones show they were cooking and
eating a lot of meat.

We are hunters and cookers of big game meat.

Philip Thrift
http://www.paleofitness.com