I would like to begin this paper with a quotation from Herodotus (Herodotus Vol. 2 book 4: 61) about the Sythian people:

‘Now the Sythian land is wondrous bare of wood: so this is their device for the cooking of flesh. When they have flayed the victims, they strip the flesh from the bones and throw it into the cauldrons of the country, if they have such: into these they cast all the flesh, and cook by lighting a fire beneath with the bones of the victims. But if they have no cauldron, then they cast all the flesh into the victims stomachs, adding water thereto, and make a fire beneath with the bones which burn finely: Thus the Ox serves to cook itself, and every other victim likewise.' Ethnographic studies of primitive cultures today teach us that, adaptation to the environment one lives in, is essential to survival. Therefore, if there is no wood to cook with, then simply use the bones of your prey for fuel. If there is no cooking pot, then use the animal’s stomach. There is an example of this self-sufficient practice in the lives of the Siriono tribe of Bolivia today (Holuberg 1997: 159).

'Little care is taken in dressing game, which is done either by men or women. Animals with hair, such as monkeys and peccaries, are first singed whole in the fire, and the burned hair is then scraped off with the fingernails or with a small section of a midrib of a motacu palm leaf. The animal is then gutted with a sharp piece of bamboo, after which the whole carcass is sometimes (but by no means always) perfunctorily washed before it is cooked. Birds are hastily plucked and then singed in the fire and gutted. If an animal is small it is usually cooked whole, but if it is too large for a pot (or too large to roast rapidly) it is quartered or cut up into smaller pieces with a bamboo knife. Armoured animals like the armadillo and tortoise are usually thrown in the fire and left there to roast in their shells.'

In much the same way as the Sythian people in Herodotus's time used the natural resources available to them to prepare and cook their quarry, this insight into the practices of the Siriono people today are I feel comparable. Minimum of effort being the pivot around which the hunter-gatherer culture past and present function. The need to travel light on a hunting expedition would have been fundamental, as the carcass of the quarry would have to be carried home to camp. Therefore a makeshift cooking pot or utensil would have been needed to cook meals while travelling away from camp on hunting expeditions.

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