I'm not entirely sure whether he's verified that the bones were not chewed after they were deceased.  Archaeologists/anthropologists seem to tend toward the more outrageous claims; we are, after all, reading a story about cannibalism.  But I am somewhat skeptical of these claims without more evidence.

I for one am not surprised.  I do, however, wonder how long ago it was when we decided to make cannibalism as unacceptable as incest.  Does anyone recall seeing the marvelous French film “Quest for Fire?  Purely speculative about cannibalism but filled with gritty realism and the unusual sight of the major female lead playing her role stark naked– clad only in body paint, mud and what looked like woad.  The part was played by Ray Dong Chong I believe.I lived in the South Pacific for a couple of years and the natives, who could all speak English, talked aboutother islanders who were known to chomp on a human or two--calling it long pig!  Enchanting--like calling taxes revenue enhancement.  I believe they were referring to someplace in the Solomons.WillyD

The article states:"Our ancestors most probably dropped food in fire accidently. They would have found it was delicious and that set us off on a whole new direction." I wonder if that is true.  Although cooking food makes it taste better to us, I wonder how we would know if it tasted better to our primitive ancestors.

Fancy a raw meat ?

I'm a student of the school of the accidental; more likely Ogg was sitting around the fire with his friends / family enjoying a raw leg of thing when (klutz that he was) he dropped said leg in the fire... it having been a long day of hunting and gathering his hunger overrulled his distaste at eating something that was all burned and smokin'. To the amusement fo f&f he ate it anyway. Likely the fact that he had less GI upsets that night had an influence... also on a cold night hot things are better to eat... the list goes on. Having figured it out (burning beff that is) could the brewing of beer be far behind?