Question

Write few lines on THE DISCOVERY OF FIRE​

Answer 1

Explanation:

The early discovery of fire had numerous benefits to the early hominids. With fire, they were able to protect themselves from the terrain

and were also able to devise an entirely new way of hunting.

Evidence of fire has been found in caves, suggesting that fire was used to keep the early hominids wams...

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Answer 2

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★THE DISCOVERY OF FIRE ★

The discovery of fire, or, more precisely, the controlled use of fire, was one of mankind's first great innovations. Fire allows us to produce light and heat, to cook plants and animals, to clear forests for planting, to heat-treat stone for making stone tools, to keep predator animals away, and to burn clay for ceramic objects. It has social purposes as well. Fires serve as gathering places, as beacons for those away from camp, and as spaces for special activities.

★The Progress of Fire Control★

The human control of fire likely required the cognitive ability to conceptualize the idea of fire, which itself has been recognized in chimpanzees; great apes have been known to prefer their foods cooked. The fact that experimentation with fire occurred during the early days of humanity should come as no surprise.

Archaeologist J.A.J. Gowlett offers this general outline for the development of fire use: opportunistic use of fire from natural occurrences (lightning strikes, meteor impacts, etc); limited conservation of fires lit by natural occurrences; use of animal dung or other slow-burning substances to maintain fires in wet or cold seasons; and finally, kindled fire.

★Early Evidence★

The controlled use of fire was likely an invention of our ancestor Homo erectus during the Early Stone Age (or Lower Paleolithic). The earliest evidence of fire associated with humans comes from Oldowan hominid sites in the Lake Turkana region of Kenya. The site of Koobi Fora contained oxidized patches of earth to a depth of several centimeters, which some scholars interpret as evidence of fire control. The Australopithecine site of Chesowanja in central Kenya (about 1.4 million years old) also contained burned clay clasts in small areas.