Amanda Henry and her team at the Smithsonian have published a paper demonstrating that Neanderthals at two sites in Belgium and Iraq unequivocally cooked their food. The analysis is based on tiny fossil remains on Neanderthal teeth. Clive Finlayson will also demonstrate that they roasted pigeons in Spain, evidence found in at least 11 different levels of the cave he analyzed, meaning they did so not sporadically but for at least 67,000 years, and perhaps for another 40,000 years.
