Ancient Lives by Brian M. Fagan;Nadia Durrani;

Author:Brian M. Fagan;Nadia Durrani;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published: 2020-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

The earliest controlled use of fire comes from an 800,000-year-old settlement at Gesher Benot Ya’aqov in Israel, but humans are thought to have tamed it much earlier. Early humans would have been familiar with the great grass and brush fires that swept across the African savanna during the dry months. Fire offered protection from predators (even insects and rodents flee from a line of flames) and an easy way of hunting game. Perhaps H. erectus developed the habit of conserving fire, taking advantage of long-smoldering tree stumps ignited by lightning strikes and other natural causes to kindle flames in order to light dry brush or simply to scare off predators. Fire may have been a truly revolutionary innovation for humanity, for it enabled people to cook food for the first time.

Dmanisi, Georgia Site dating to c. 1.8 Ma that has yielded crania of Homo erectus-like people, the earliest hominins known in Europe and Eurasia.

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