1. How did early man discover fire?
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Explanation:
Evidence at Zhoukoudian cave in China suggests control of fire as early as 460,000 to 230,000 BP. Fire in Zhoukoudian is suggested by the presence of burned bones, burned chipped-stone artifacts, charcoal, ash, and hearths alongside H. erectus fossils in Layer 10, the earliest archaeological horizon at the site.
Answer:
Picture this scene: a group of scraggly cavemen huddle in a cave, seeking shelter from a passing storm. Suddenly, lightning strikes a nearby tree, which catches fire.
Frightened but inspired, these cavemen venture out, bring burning sticks back into their cave and learn to use fire. Then, bam! Civilization, right? Well, the truth is that our history with fire is much more complicated, and still very much a mystery to our paleoanthropologists and our theologists. We do know that early men and women of the Stone Age had fire in their lives, and used it to help shape their world, sometimes literally. It was a technology that truly set the world ablaze (if you'll pardon the pun).