Oldest evidence of deliberate fire use found in England

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hundreds of thousands of years and people living on that island still haven’t quite figured out how to use fire to make good food…

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  • Codpiece@feddit.uk ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      yes!

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  • rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Where do you think you are, Dr. Cox?

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    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      …Old England?

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• rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I like the qualifier “deliberate” like there’s older evidence that someone used fire after fucking up at doing something else.

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  • HumanPenguin@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Very likely we discovered how to start fire accidentally.

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• oeuf@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Looking forward to Al Murray finding out about this.

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