Re: For paleo fans: Fire was used earlier than people thought

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Oh, yeah. It means that we are not meant to eat 100% raw.

Garrett

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> -- Heidi Jean

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> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12768-2004May9.html?

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> Late last month, a team of Israeli archaeologists reported the

earliest evidence yet found of controlled fire on the Eurasian land

mass -- three clusters of cracked and blackened flint chips and bits

of charcoal deposited 790,000 years ago at a campsite on what is

today the banks of the Jordan River.

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> The site -- in northern Israel near the Lebanese border -- lies at

the geographical crossroads between Africa and Eurasia, a logical

stopping place for fire-bearing human ancestors on their way out of

Africa and into colder northern climates. Although many researchers

believe that fire was first tamed in Africa, the new research is the

most powerful evidence yet found of fire being harnessed before the

advent of modern humans.

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> " We can reconstruct the habitat, " said archaeologist Naama Goren-

Inbar, leader of the Hebrew University team that excavated the site

at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov. " We have bones of elephant, rhino, hippo

and small things. There are very clear marks showing that the people

cut the meat and ate steaks and marrow. " Her team's findings were

reported in the journal Science.