Cabot Guns Has Made 1911s Out of Meteorite ;)
Posted on 06/06/2016 1:47:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Prehumans living around 800,000 years ago in what's now southeastern Spain were, literally, trailblazers. They lit small, controlled blazes in a cave, a new study finds.
Discoveries in the cave provide the oldest evidence of fire making in Europe and support proposals that members of the human genus, Homo, regularly ignited fires starting at least 1 million years ago, say paleontologist Michael Walker of the University of Murcia in Spain and his colleagues...
If the age estimate for the Spain find holds up, the new report adds to a "surprising number" of sites from deep in the Stone Age that retain evidence of small, intentionally lit fires, says archaeologist John Gowlett of the University of Liverpool in England.
Excavations conducted since 2011 at the Spanish cave, Cueva Negra del Estrecho del Río Quípar, have uncovered more than 165 stones and stone artifacts that had been heated, as well as about 2,300 animal-bone fragments displaying signs of heating and charring. Microscopic and chemical analyses indicate that these finds had been heated to between 400° and 600° Celsius, consistent with having been burned in a fire.
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They saved a bundle by not having to give Ron Perlman prosthetics to look like a cave dude. He already came equipped.
Freegards
The bow was a huge advance from the hand drill for sure. I also imagine they kept a fire going constantly once a fire source was found. When the winters started getting hard in Europe, anyone who stayed would just about have to have figured out fire making. It’s hard to find preserved copies of ancient tools as lots were doubtless made of wood or weaved grasses, etc.
Jaws got smaller due to discovery of fall off the bone ribs recipe.
http://www.jennycancook.com/recipes/fall-off-the-bone-ribs
We are the only species that cooks and the only one that has no fear of fire.
#27 There was fire anytime a guy was in bed with her.....
You are making me feel old. Devo doesn’t seem like I have to that far back.
Damn....they came out after college.
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.
Heh... he was a one-hit wonder, probably in more ways than one. ;’)
Read an account of the troops in Arizona going in the field wearing their rattiest clothes and looking like a bunch of ragamuffins.
Is that in Bourke’s book?
Our forefathers used flint and steel. Could one make sparks with flint and meteor metal? Surely at some time in the past someone hit an iron meteor with a piece of flint.
Cabot Guns Has Made 1911s Out of Meteorite ;)
It was a soccer hooligan who needed a Crusade in Europe to be stopped.
Is it time for another Crusade in Europe?
Hot!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFTLKWw542g - “We didn’t start the fire” - Billy Joel
It's Camp of the Saints time in Europe right now, and you can't have a camp without a campfire.
***Is that in Bourke’s book?***
Yes.
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