Still Waters Posted January 27, 2014 #1 Share Posted January 27, 2014 Humans, by most estimates, discovered fire over a million years ago. But when did they really begin to control fire and use it for their daily needs? That question - one which is central to the subject of the rise of human culture - is still hotly debated. http://phys.org/news...old-hearth.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonardo Posted January 27, 2014 #2 Share Posted January 27, 2014 For a site which is proud of it's scientific credentials, I found the article to be quite lacking. "Humans" were not around 300,000 years ago - considering humans are Homo sapiens. Neither had "humans" discovered fire ~ 1 million years ago. The hominin species that were around at that time (300kya) would be H. neanderthalensis, H. heidelbergensis, and H. erectus - although others (such as the Denisovans) may also have been around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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