UM-Bot Posted March 10, 2016 #1 Share Posted March 10, 2016 Raw meat is notoriously difficult to chew, so how did our prehistoric ancestors manage to do it ? Unlike other carnivorous animals such as wolves which have teeth that can slice through raw meat, human teeth are primarily adapted for chewing and crushing like a mortar and pestle, meaning that we have to cook meat first so that our teeth can break it down when we eat it. Read More: http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/292410/how-did-our-ancestors-consume-raw-meat 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hartmut Posted March 10, 2016 #2 Share Posted March 10, 2016 They pounded it with a rock ! ! ! Other that that, they discovered 'cooking' when a piece of meat fell into their camp fire. :-) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubblykiss Posted March 10, 2016 #3 Share Posted March 10, 2016 Stone wielding apes had a hard time eating raw meat and yet modern zombies can easily devour entire people in only minutes nowadays. But seriously, imagine the broadcast add for people to join the study "Like raw meat? Love chewing endlessly on uncooked-disease free goat sickles? Are you passionate about having dime sized electrodes plastered all over your face? Come make $50 with us!" 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imaginarynumber1 Posted March 10, 2016 #4 Share Posted March 10, 2016 Stone wielding apes had a hard time eating raw meat and yet modern zombies can easily devour entire people in only minutes nowadays. But seriously, imagine the broadcast add for people to join the study "Like raw meat? Love chewing endlessly on uncooked-disease free goat sickles? Are you passionate about having dime sized electrodes plastered all over your face? Come make $50 with us!" Hey man, 50 bucks is 50 bucks. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rlyeh Posted March 10, 2016 #5 Share Posted March 10, 2016 With their mouth I imagine. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taun Posted March 10, 2016 #6 Share Posted March 10, 2016 With their mouth I imagine. I was going to say "One bite at a time"... But yours is good too! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonardo Posted March 10, 2016 #7 Share Posted March 10, 2016 I disagree with the conclusion of the academics that our ancestors had to develop technology to cut and/or pound meat before they, as a species, began to add meat to their diet. The simplest way to add meat to our diet, would have been to let it mature for a couple of days before eating it. The initial process of decay breaks down the tough fibers in meat and makes it far easier to chew and digest. The only difficulty would be protecting the meat from scavengers or other predators, and that is where our ancestor's social behaviour gave them an advantage. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilly Posted March 10, 2016 #8 Share Posted March 10, 2016 Yeah, they probably ate semi-rotten meat. I also suspect the idea to roast the meat was discovered pretty early on. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldorado Posted March 10, 2016 #9 Share Posted March 10, 2016 Our first ever chefs must have been hero-worshipped, I reckon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taun Posted March 10, 2016 #10 Share Posted March 10, 2016 The very first ones were probably thought of as a bunch of young too-smart-for-their-own-good upstart whippersnappers, with their danged newfangled ideas... Absolutely no respect for tradition!... Sheesh... waving all this danged "fire" around all the time!.. They're likely to burn the whole danged world to cinders!... What's next? Taking the skins off of animals and wrapping them around us?... Probably have us taking baths someday too... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubblykiss Posted March 10, 2016 #11 Share Posted March 10, 2016 The very first ones were probably thought of as a bunch of young too-smart-for-their-own-good upstart whippersnappers, with their danged newfangled ideas... Absolutely no respect for tradition!... Sheesh... waving all this danged "fire" around all the time!.. They're likely to burn the whole danged world to cinders!... What's next? Taking the skins off of animals and wrapping them around us?... Probably have us taking baths someday too... There as a story an old Analog written as business memos between cavemen about, fire, music, speaking and the wearing of clothing (dead animal skins!) and other disturbing changes that were altering the organizational structure of the caveman society. I wish I could tell you the name or year or author, but that magazine is long gone now 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taun Posted March 10, 2016 #12 Share Posted March 10, 2016 There as a story an old Analog written as business memos between cavemen about, fire, music, speaking and the wearing of clothing (dead animal skins!) and other disturbing changes that were altering the organizational structure of the caveman society. I wish I could tell you the name or year or author, but that magazine is long gone now Sounds like a fun read... There are some other short stories and such from back in the day I really liked that I can't recall the names to either... One I especially liked was about a young angel that accidently bestowed "sainthood" on an advertising executive (name mix up with a Tibetan Monk)... Hilarious story about how he tried to get the very brightly shining halo to go away... Can't for the life of me remember the name or the author though... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galactic Goatman Posted March 10, 2016 #13 Share Posted March 10, 2016 Raw meat is notoriously difficult to chew, so how did our prehistoric ancestors manage to do it ? Read More: http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/292410/how-did-our-ancestors-consume-raw-meat We pay the price (in meat) for our large brains. But a larger brain leaves less room for muscle to chew the meat, thus the need for meat cutting tools, which need a large brain for them to be made, and that large brain needs meat to fuel it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Essan Posted March 10, 2016 #14 Share Posted March 10, 2016 Strange. I have no problem eating raw meat! Though admittedly I get mine from the butcher rather than straight off the carcass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herbygant Posted March 10, 2016 #15 Share Posted March 10, 2016 (edited) Who says they were our ancestors anyway? Edited March 10, 2016 by herbygant 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calibeliever Posted March 10, 2016 #16 Share Posted March 10, 2016 It seems the simplest way to figure out that cooking meat was advantages would be to stumble across a dead animal that had been burnt in a grass fire. The cooked meat would be softer to chew and wouldn't spoil as quickly. Grass fires not only killed the prey for you, they tenderized as well. Handy tool if you can master it. In college (many many many years ago) we were asked to write a hypothesis on why early humans developed the habit of cooking. That was mine *shrug* 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseme Posted March 10, 2016 #17 Share Posted March 10, 2016 I doubt they woulda ate raw meat just for the hell of. Prob only did it as a ritualistic thing or outta necessity. Especially if they had to track locate hunt and kill the animal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeastieRunner Posted March 10, 2016 #18 Share Posted March 10, 2016 I agree with the earlier poster that said early cooks must have been hero-worshipped. Maybe even formed religions around them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlawde Posted March 10, 2016 #19 Share Posted March 10, 2016 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielost Posted March 10, 2016 #20 Share Posted March 10, 2016 if they couldn't chew it, they couldn't digest it. if you can't digest it then why would you eat it. just like chew gum it would just sit in your stomach, until it found its way out. thus they only reason humans would have statrteed eating meat is after the invention of cooking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatBeliever Posted March 11, 2016 #21 Share Posted March 11, 2016 (edited) Scientists believe that early men most likely started liking cooked meat by accident, from animals that died in forest fires.. Edited March 11, 2016 by TheGreatBeliever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldorado Posted March 11, 2016 #22 Share Posted March 11, 2016 We were told at school it was the McDonalds started it. But this is Scotland. we claim everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielost Posted March 12, 2016 #23 Share Posted March 12, 2016 here is a question, how did we come about bread.. you chew grain it does not become dow it just becomes smaller so you can swallow it. making bread has to be something you set out to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightScreams Posted March 12, 2016 #24 Share Posted March 12, 2016 Wait a second, we can chew up some kinds of raw meat just fine. not all animals are tough and chewy. I have known someone that ate fresh raw meat while hunting probably just depends on the animal. Maybe wooly mammoths were tender but either way it's Likely our earliest ancestors would catch small prey, likely something with meat more edible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolguy Posted March 12, 2016 #25 Share Posted March 12, 2016 (edited) Maybe they put the meat on a rock and beat it with another rock to soften it up Edited March 12, 2016 by coolguy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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