On Thu, 7 Dec 2000 19:15:38 -0400, matesz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>In Jean Auel's book, the potential loss of fat was dealt with in some cases
>by cooking the animal, such as rabbit, with the skin on.   Also, people
>burned dung, kindling, and dried shrubbery from many plants for fuel.
>Auel
>got some information from paleo anthropologists that suggests that people
>may have rendered the animal fat in leather sacks hung over the fire and
>wet
>first so they would not burn.  It is interesting the way she describes it.

There is some speculative experimenatation of this at

   http://www.wynja.com/arch/cooking.html

(but leave out the potatos :-).

There is a whole genre of Ice Age or Paleo-fiction

   http://www.paleobook.com




Philip Thrift
http://www.paleofitness.com