"Earliest Europeans Did Not Use Fire for Cooking" Topic
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| Tango01 | 20 Dec 2016 9:50 p.m. PST |
"Studying dental plaque from a 1.2-million-year-old hominin, found by archaeologists in 2007 at the site of the Sima del Elefante (Pit of the Elephant), Atapuerca, Spain, Dr. Hardy and co-authors extracted microfossils to find the earliest direct evidence of food eaten by early humans. These microfossils included traces of raw animal tissue, uncooked starch granules indicating consumption of grasses, pollen grains from a species of pine, insect fragments and a possible fragment of a toothpick. All detected fibers were uncharred, and there was also no evidence showing inhalation of microcharcoal — normally a clear indicator of proximity to fire…"
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| Coelacanth1938 | 21 Dec 2016 3:04 a.m. PST |
Meanwhile, Neandertals might had used chemical reactions to start fires link |
 Extra Crispy  | 21 Dec 2016 9:04 a.m. PST |
That's a lot of "conclusion" for a sample of one. |
| Tango01 | 21 Dec 2016 10:28 a.m. PST |
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Roderick Robertson  | 21 Dec 2016 10:30 a.m. PST |
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| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 21 Dec 2016 12:03 p.m. PST |
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 Bobgnar  | 22 Dec 2016 1:46 p.m. PST |
If they did not use fire for cooking, what did they cook with? Microwave? |
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