Marc Verhaegen:
> >>>
http://scienceblogs.com/gnxp/2009/06/catching_fire_how_cooking_made.php#more
> >>> Good review by Razib, good comments
>
> >> Perhaps, but I stopped reading when I read "habilus" & arguments
> >> based on supposedly sleeping on the ground... --Marc

Yes, this is senseless. But everything else is excellent,
: ).

> > Well it promotes cooking rather than shellfish, so I knew you'd be
> > unimpressed.
>
> There's no contradiction between fire & shellfish.
>
> > I think it was:
> > AHV (sedge, water lily nut)/fruit/larva ->
> > raw seafood/AHV/fruits/eggs ->
> > saltwater soaked & sundried seafood/game/AHV/fruits/eggs
> > (cook) ambush game/seafood+fish/AHV/fruit ->
> > (cook/smoke) herd game/grain/seafood+fish/fruit
> > cooking after shellfish not before, allowed more ungulate foods
> > and grains cooked in saltwater.
> > Cooking at seashore first, where fire couldn't escape due to
> > beach & water,
> > allowed full control. A sand pit with dry flotsam to burn, then
> > meat inside pit as luau or barbeque.
>
> Yes, possible.
> Fire from sparkles in stone tool making?

Excellent, thanks Daud.
Fire we met in Mediterranean, more than 10 mya. We
maintained fire like a camp fire. Every family had a fire, and if yours
extinguishes you borrow it from neighbors. They HUNT with
fire anyway. -- Mario Petrinovic