Earliest roasted root vegetables found in 170,000-year-old cave dirt

New Scientist ^ | January 2, 2020 | Journal reference: Science

[IronJack]

I prefer something fresher.

[SunkenCiv]

Roasting would have been easy. But re-creating the paleo way of boiling water requires a bit more imagination. On a blustery day in October, Andrew Langley and 13 other graduate students headed to the woods to learn to boil water. They were allowed no obvious cooking vessels: no pots, no pans, no bowls, no cups, no containers at all. But they did bring deer hides, which Langley had carefully procured from deer farms. They were to boil water the Paleolithic way. Langley is a doctoral student in archaeology at the University of York, and he studies how prehistoric humans cooked without pottery. Ceramics are a relatively recent invention in the long arc of human history. Pottery shards appear in the archaeological record only 20,000 years ago, first in China and then many millennia later in the Near East and Europe...

• How Did Humans Boil Water Before the Invention of Pots? | Sarah Zhang | The Atlantic | January 16, 2020

[b4its2late]

If Slick Willy was still in office, he’d offer to eat them.

[Deplorable American1776]

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