On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Philip Thrift wrote:

> http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/9/0,5716,127619+9,00.html

Here's another one:
http://www.unesco.org/general/eng/about/office/external/beijing/pkm-site.htm

> Perhaps our predecessors are more informatively called
> "hunter-cookers".

It's interesting that "Peking man" also apparently ate (and
cooked) hackberry seeds.  Out of curiosity I did a search on
hackberry seeds and found the following interesting site,
concerning the hunter-gatherers of the American plains, who
coincidentally also ate hackberry seeds.

http://twist.lib.uiowa.edu/plains/archaic.html

Todd Moody
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