On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 14:42:51 -0500, Wally Ballou <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:


>Naked... with a sharp stick...
>
>no fire, no roasting, no boiling, no braising, no sauteing...

without fire you have to eat it raw, like David Karas eats his meat.
And you?
And tubers - only half of them is edible  raw.
Most tree seeds are edible raw (nuts) many other seeds too, like the ones
australian aboriginals make their "bread" from.

Fire would help to eat meat and even more tubers and grass seeds.
Have much more engergy when cooked, and less toxins.
Fire has archeologic evidence after 400,000BC (stone herds).

But maybe fire was the main transition force between australopithecines and
erectines even 1.9mio years ago.
A fire without stone herds, 1.8 mio years ago wouldn't leave much traces I
think.

Naked with this stick, sharp or not.....
you could hunt tubers or gazelles. :-)

biggest prey amount would be tubers , naked with a stick.
(tubers = USOs =underground storage organs)
the stick is called digging stick then
Or maybe a gazelle could move near enough to fear this stick?

May be

Amadeus