Shallow ripples caused by heating run across a piece of rock excavated in a Spanish cave. This and other finds indicate that an undetermined Homo species lit small fires in the cave around 800,000 years ago, researchers say. Each square on the measuring stick covers 1 centimeter.
Cueva Negra del Estrecho del Río Quípar translates as
“The Cave as Black as Michelle’s Stretch Marks,”
and the discoveries therein should cause us to re-evaluate
naming an era “Stone Age.”
It is racist and approprationalist to identify a people
by their lack of martial sophistication
and their use of anything they couldn’t actually eat.
Going forward, this era will be known as Gun-Free Utopia.
I thought the moslems taught the Europeans how to make fire.
This evidence is of a fire being present in a photo-Human dwelling place does not answer that question. The European area that is now Spain is believed to have populations of H. antecessor in that time frame which is currently thought to have evolved into H. heidelbergensis which was the likely ancestor to both H. neanderthalensis and later H. sapiens.
The question to me is when and how do anthropologists and paleontologists decide that these predecessors went from obtaining and preserving natural live coals to the ART of creating fire at will as is described in this article. While both acts require mental ability that is beyond that of any other animal now known, the latter is a definite aspect of tool making!
There had to have been some guy or maybe even a kid who was randomly smacking a flint with a piece of iron meteorite and produced sparks.
They started fires and then the band’s Angrog Zimmern went to cooking every bug and critter he could find.
