What’s new is old: Comments on (more) archaeological evidence of one-million-year-old fire from South Africa
The essential roles of fire in human evolution and in humanity’s technological mastery of the natural world are disproportional to our understanding of its earliest domestication. Archaeologists researching relatively recent occurrences of fire, only after ~0.4 Ma and mostly in Europe, are particula...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Academy of Science of South Africa
2012-05-01
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| Series: | South African Journal of Science |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sajs.co.za/index.php/SAJS/article/view/1250 |
| Summary: | The essential roles of fire in human evolution and in humanity’s technological mastery of the natural world are disproportional to our understanding of its earliest domestication. Archaeologists researching relatively recent occurrences of fire, only after ~0.4 Ma and mostly in Europe, are particularly critical of earlier archaeological claims of fire from African sites older than 1.0 million years old. |
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| ISSN: | 0038-2353 1996-7489 |