An International Team of Leading Israeli Universities Finds Oldest Evidence of Controlled Use of Fire to Cook Food. Until now, the earliest evidence of cooking dates to approximately 170,000 years ago. A close analysis of the remains of a carp-like fish found at the Gesher Benot Ya’aqov (GBY) archaeological site in Israel shows that the … Continue reading Evolution of Mind Started in Israel: First Cooked Fish 780.000 Years (D/E)