The Earliest Evidence of Cooking Food

Leading Israeli universities collaborate internationally to unearth the earliest proof of the controlled use of fire to cook meals.

A startling scientific finding has been made after thorough examination of the remains of a fish resembling a carp discovered at the Israeli archaeological site of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov which reveals that the fish were cooked there about 780,000 years ago. For more than a century, scientists have debated the issue of when early humans first used fire to …