Hunting = symbol of strength of man over nature
- Humans needed a fallback food
- A lot more palatable by COOKING
- How do you manipulate fire?
- Hearths c. 1.6 mya?
- Clustered evidence of burning
- Seems like there should be more evidence about fire (referring to Wrang.'s argument) like habitual fire usage...seems as though what W is arguing isn't so likely
Evaluating the Cooking Hypothesis
- Compelling explanation for physical changes in hominins
- Lingering questions on social side
- Mixed support in archaeological record
- Fire is used infrequently before 400 kya
- Humans appear to us and harness fire much more frequently after 400 kya
- Wrang. thinks a lot of these changes are happening much earlier...not an example of behavioral modernity
- Dissolving the separation between science and myth
Critiquing a publication
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