Hard to find a good answer for this. After discovering fire, were early humans just wondering what would happen if they put meat and other foods over the fire? Did they learn that eating uncooked meat can make them sick?
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There’s not going to be a good answer to this, even if people post about it here because we have no documentation that’s survived from that time period. We’ll have guess at best, unfortunately. Unless someone has a time machine and didn’t tell anyone. Otherwise, we just don’t know. We don’t even know how humans because to use fire.
THOUGH it is obvious what happens when someone eats raw meat. The likelihood of you getting sick is high and ancient people aren’t idiots. They can perceive cause and effect. And, for much of human history, we were always on the verge of starvation. So desperation PROBABLY made ancient people try all sorts of different things to try to preserve food for the long term. We do have foods like cheese and wine and beef jerky and whatnot after all. Whatever it takes to survive.
TL:dr; we don’t actually know and probably won’t know but ancient people can see themselves and others getting sick so they probably just tried whatever to see what worked.
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