Humans Were Using Fire Long Before Scientists Thought Possible, Study Says

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• essell@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  ever since the site started to show evidence of our ancestors’ earliest known use of fire back in 2012

  I’m now anthropologist, but I’m fairly short use of fire goes back earlier than that.

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  • sj_zero ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago federation: confirmed

    Can confirm, used fire in 2011.
• Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Now a sprawling international team of archaeologists, paleontologists, geologists, and others say that they have documented compelling evidence that our ancestors’ first known use of fire dates back 700,000 years earlier than prior estimates. Employing a new luminescence technique to date burnt bone fossils, the researchers estimate that ancient hominids inhabiting the cave were likely fueling their fires with animal droppings as far back as 1.07 to 1.79 million years ago.

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  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Shit has been on fire for awhile it seems.

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    • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
      South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
      Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
      North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

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  • finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Theg: “Man, the animakls have been dropping turds like nobody’s business today! What do we do with it all?”

    Gok: “Burn that shit!”

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  • Einskjaldi@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Keeping a fire going is much easier than starting one

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• patruelis@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Which humanoids?

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  • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Homo erectus

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• DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  [off topic?]

  Pretty good movie.

  Quest For Fire.

  https://youtu.be/2pcGGKtPpSE

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