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“The study, which was published in the journal Nature on Dec. 10, centered around a site in Barnham, England, that dates to the Paleolithic era, the longest era of human prehistory.
Although the Paleolithic spans from about 2.5 million to 10,000 years ago, the newly uncovered evidence is dated to roughly 400,000 years ago.
Until now, the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making dated to about 50,000 years ago in northern France, which makes the new discovery a major chronological shift.
During the excavation, a team led by the British Museum found flint hand axes, a patch of baked clay and fragments of iron pyrite. The iron pyrite was likely struck against flint to produce fire.
Archaeologists found the burned deposits within the sediment of ancient ponds, which helped preserve the evidence hundreds of thousands of years later.
Scientists found that, rather than being proof of ancient wildfires or lightning strikes, the spot showed evidence of repeated burning.
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According to geochemical tests, the sediments showed that heat exceeded 1,292 degrees Fahrenheit, which suggested localized, high-intensity fire rather than a natural event.
Rob Davis, a Paleolithic archaeologist at the British Museum, told The Associated Press that the recently-gathered evidence shows "how they were actually making the fire and the fact they were making it.
The results at Barnham, archaeologists say, are part of a wider pattern across Britain and continental Europe between 500,000 and 400,000 years ago, when early human brain size increased and more complex behaviors — like fire-making — began to emerge.”
I guess we were not monkeys 350,000 years ago!
“The study, which was published in the journal Nature on Dec. 10, centered around a site in Barnham, England, that dates to the Paleolithic era, the longest era of human prehistory.
Although the Paleolithic spans from about 2.5 million to 10,000 years ago, the newly uncovered evidence is dated to roughly 400,000 years ago.
Until now, the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making dated to about 50,000 years ago in northern France, which makes the new discovery a major chronological shift.
During the excavation, a team led by the British Museum found flint hand axes, a patch of baked clay and fragments of iron pyrite. The iron pyrite was likely struck against flint to produce fire.
Archaeologists found the burned deposits within the sediment of ancient ponds, which helped preserve the evidence hundreds of thousands of years later.
Scientists found that, rather than being proof of ancient wildfires or lightning strikes, the spot showed evidence of repeated burning.
No photos of artifacts included in story…
According to geochemical tests, the sediments showed that heat exceeded 1,292 degrees Fahrenheit, which suggested localized, high-intensity fire rather than a natural event.
Rob Davis, a Paleolithic archaeologist at the British Museum, told The Associated Press that the recently-gathered evidence shows "how they were actually making the fire and the fact they were making it.
The results at Barnham, archaeologists say, are part of a wider pattern across Britain and continental Europe between 500,000 and 400,000 years ago, when early human brain size increased and more complex behaviors — like fire-making — began to emerge.”
I guess we were not monkeys 350,000 years ago!
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