Write a short note on discovery of fire
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Fire was one of the greatest discovery of man in the Early age. There is no exact definition about its discovery. It may be a sudden affair.It may cause due to accidental rubbing of stones whose spark fell on dry leaves. Or lightning may be the cause of fire which might have struck trees and fire had spread.
Discovery of fire changed human lives in the following manner:
a. Fire gave light in the dark ,
b. They later used it for cooking their food.
c. It also gave them warmth during extreme cold conditions d. It was also used to protect them from wild animals.
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Claims for the earliest definitive evidence of control of fire by a member of Homo range from 1.7 to 2.0 million years ago (Mya). Evidence for the "microscopic traces of wood ash" as controlled use of fire by Homo erectus, beginning some 1,000,000 years ago, has wide scholarly support.