[SirJohnBarleycorn]

Of course they did. How would Peking Man have cooked duck without fire?

If they look more carefully, they might also find leftover pancakes, scallions and hoisin sauce.

[SMARTY]

“...200-000 to 500,000 years ago...”

Is that kind of gigantic window typical in archeology? I thought they could be much more precise than that.

[bgill]

Makes my day when the experts are proven wrong once again.

[N. Theknow]

Peking Man is now Zippo Marxist?

[TomOnTheRun]

I wish they said if the burnt bones were human or animal. Or both. That would be really interesting.

[GonzoGOP]

500,000 years ago man invented fire. At about 2:30 that afternoon man invented the barbecue. Later his wife invented complaining about Peking man's lazy friends who never go back to their own caves. The rest is history.

[Tainan]

Fire is really really old.

[SunkenCiv]

The Neandertal Enigma
by James Shreeve
in local libraries

Frayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]