Human Ancestors Used Fire One Million Years Ago

TELLTALE FOSSIL: Micrograph of a burned bone fragment on an Acheulean paleosurface at Wonderwerk Cave in Northern Cape Province, South Africa. The burned clay sediments, and bone fragments indicate fire use by humans about one million years ago. Photo: Goldberg




A recent research paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences claims that it is not the invention of fire as we have studied but it is the ability to control the fire that was a turning point in human evolution/civilization.

The impact of cooking food is well documented, but the impact of control over fire would have touched all elements of human society.

Socializing around a camp fire might actually be an essential aspect of what makes us human.


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