Chimps and fire
From an Iowa State press release: Humans were thought to process a unique ability to use fire, but now anthropologist Jill Pruetz reports that savanna chimpanzees in Senegal have a near human...
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Regarding the use of fire, I’ve always been intrigued by how early Homo was able to continue its trek northward (ex. Dmanisi) without it. It would seem that a traveling hominid would frequently find...
View ArticleDid humans colonize the northern latitudes without fire?
Wil Roebroeks and Paola Villa [1] review the evidence for human control and use of fire in the archaeology of Europe during the Middle Pleistocene (130,000-780,000 years ago) and earlier. They observe...
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