If you’re cooking or eating a special dinner this week, you have something in common with our ancient human ancestors. A study found what could be the earliest known evidence of rudimentary cooking: the leftovers of a roasted carp from 780,000 years ago.
Over years of “digging in mud” at the site, researchers examined a curious catch of fish remains, especially teeth, said Naama Goren-Inbar, an archaeologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who led the excavations.
With all of this evidence together, the authors concluded that these human cousins had harnessed fire for cooking more than three quarters of a million years ago. That’s much earlier than theThe researchers — like many of their colleagues — believe cooking started long before this, though physical evidence has been hard to come by.“I am sure that in the near future an earlier case will be reported,” study author Israel Hershkovitz of Tel Aviv University said in an email.
“If we’re out there eating raw items, it is very difficult to make it as a large-bodied primate,” Braun said.Those first cooked meals were a far cry from today’s turkey dinners. And in the many, many years in between, humans started not just eating for fuel, but for community., researchers described the earliest evidence of a feast — a specially prepared meal that brought people together for an occasion 12,000 years ago in a cave in Israel.
It seems her people held a feast to honor her death. Munro and her team found large numbers of animal remains at the site — including enough tortoises and wild cattle to create a hearty spread.
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