[katana]

I recall reading somewhere that a native American method for making a stew involved putting cut-up meat, herbs, and edible roots into a leather "pot" filled with water and then adding red hot stones from a fire to do the cooking.

The tendency for "experts" to have such low opinions of our ancestors', 30 or 40 thousand years past, native intelligence and ingenuity is frustrating. Considering the conditions in which they were surviving, to the point of success where they were able to raise offspring from whom we are all descended, they were no less and probably quite a bit brighter than 99% of all modern day PhD's.

[Errant]

I’d pretty much bet you can’t burn up a leather pot filled with water, or even a wooden one.