Did early ancestors boil food in hot springs?

[Still Waters]

Some of the oldest remains of early human ancestors have been unearthed in Olduvai Gorge, a rift valley setting in northern Tanzania where anthropologists have discovered fossils of hominids that existed 1.8 million years ago. The region has preserved many fossils and stone tools, indicating that early humans settled and hunted there.

Now a team led by researchers at MIT and the University of Alcalá in Spain has discovered evidence that hot springs may have existed in Olduvai Gorge around that time, near early human archaeological sites. The proximity of these hydrothermal features raises the possibility that early humans could have used hot springs as a cooking resource, for instance to boil fresh kills, long before humans are thought to have used fire as a controlled source for cooking.

https://phys.org/news/2020-09-early-ancestors-food-hot.html

[the13bats]

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1 hour ago, the13bats said:

Is that a Megaloolithus?

[the13bats]

Um, i , gee whizz thats above my pay rate,

[Piney]

4 hours ago, Still Waters said:

early humans could have used hot springs as a cooking resource, for instance to boil fresh kills, long before humans are thought to have used fire as a controlled source for cooking

Why not? Snow monkeys do. 

[Nnicolette]

And here I thought all the arrowheads and kitchen midden were always abundant near every hot spring because it was a nice place for a swim.

[Chronus]

Wait I know not much on hot springs, can they get that hot?