Mon Oct 27, 9:34 AM ET -- Excavations at the Gesher Benot Ya'qov site. A new study shows that humans had the ability to make fire nearly 790,000 years ago, a skill that helped them migrate from Africa to Europe. (Prof. Naama Goren-Inbar/Hebrew University of Jerusalem/Handout/Reuters)
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Tou know, I can’t build a fire these days without doing the Tom Hanks Castaway thing every time.
Besides, if this happened today, we'd never be able to use it because of the liability issues involved.
And one day later they invented the first kegger
790,000 years ago? Now, that can’t *possibly* be right...
It was actually believed to be earlier than that...Al Gore’s ancestor scolded at least every tribe within a 1 mile vicinity so they made fires when he wasn’t looking.
“While they did not find remnants of ancient matches or lighters”
LOL - oddly enough, the lighter was invented by a german alchemist just a couple of centuries ago.
I say odd, because it seemes so obvious - bolt an iron wheel and a piece of flint to an oil lamp.
But nobody did it until recently, and the guy who did, invented the thing because he kept blowing up his lab mucking with flint and steel after he turned on the gas.
This is interesting, because the Andaman Island Negritos, thought to be a relict population of the most primitive early line of out-of-Africa migrators, can’t make fire, but must carry it around as they move their camps.
Surely they didn’t make fire without a massive goobermint program, and perhaps an expensive “bailout” to boot?
790,000 years ago?
Uh, not exactly.
