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Stewing and bubbling Neanderthal-style?

5/3/2014

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Neanderthals may have boiled their food, this according to John Speth. He speculates that these early humans may have used skin or birch bark bags to boil their food. If this is true, then this would push back the use of fire by thousands of years. 
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