On Sat, 19 Aug 2000 21:40:04 -0400, Cheyenne Loon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>> Of course: skulls.
>
>...skulls being bones, of course!

Of course.
Sume human skulls may be of even harder material ;-)

On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 16:56:55 EDT, Kim Tedrow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>I think paleo folks probably used animal body parts -- such as stomachs,
>bladders, and intestines, as food containers and "boiling bags."
>

And boiled with hot stones inserted into the bag, yes.
This may give some kind of (slightly) boiled meat.
I'm not shure why to do it - I mean if the heat is enough to kill off
bugs and parasites.

I don't know if stomachs and bladders could be used more often.
Surely somebody or some experimenting archeologists have tried it.

At last you can't put a whole elk into it's own stomach..

cheers

Amadeus S.