When did humans first cook their food? Please cite some evidence in your answer. Thanks!?

Question

Dates, please...

How about for Cro-Magnon in Europe?

When did Hunter & Gatherers cook? Or did they eat meat raw?

I mean to ask, when did humans, in general, begin cooking food, not accidentally once or twice eat something burnt, but on a regular basis, and not make fire just for warmth?

Carbon-dating of campires can reveal such information, does anyone know of any such studies?

Answer 1

"In the view of Richard W. Wrangham, a professor of anthropology at Harvard, the preparing, cooking and sociable eating of food are so central to the human experience that the culinary arts may well be what made us human in the first place.

Wrangham, who is renowned for his studies of chimpanzees and of male aggression generally, proposes that the use of fire to cook food could date back almost 2 million years, a good 1.5 million years before the timing traditionally accorded it. He also suggests that the ability to cook food could explain a wide array of hominid features, including a large brain; small teeth; a relative modesty of size difference, or sexual dimorphism, between men and women; and a tendency to pair up and put up with each other far longer than most primates do."

Answer 2

Your asking quite a lot here my friend. They probably cooked their food when some got caught in a lightening storm and fried, they may or may not have had fire, maybe from the same storm but, if you want dates, get them yourself, how in the heck are you going to date this?

What kind of evedince do you want for Petes sake. I think your going to have to do your own homework.

Answer 3

When some poor animal died near lava or lightening struck a fire that burned some dead meat...something like that