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[[Scientists find evidence of fires built in Yucatan cave 10,000 years ago]]
...Several rubber pieces with deep treads on them were found 1/2 burned buried under mounds of melted fiberglass- a NYT article about global warming was found alongside the mound of debris, so they are certain of the date-
Rangers wrote them a ticket for improper burning and left it at the scene.
The origin of fire actually comes down to someone in the Yucatan spilled the chili sauce on a piece of dry wood.
Cue Billy Joel -
We didn’t start the fire...it was always burnin since the world was turnin
When I first began studying and performing archeology, the ‘consensus’ at the time was that humans crossed over to what is now Alaska when the continents were connected during the last Ice Age. The ‘consensus’ dictated that the first humans crossed over into what is now Alaska 10,000 years ago. Back then I immediately laughed (to myself). ‘To myself’ because to question the prevailing theory at that time would not have assisted in furthering my career. I knew instinctively that humans could have come to the New World much earlier, but back when I first began studying we just did not have the technology, or evidence, to prove it. The surface of the Earth is constantly changing, and evidence is, at times, difficult to find. Discoveries like the one in this article do not surprise me at all.
Really SC .... a fire .... 10,000 years ago ? ..... No bicycle or ham radio.
I told those blasted kids not to play with matches in there!
Of course.
Ten thousand year old marshmallows weren’t going to roast themselves.
Also, it would not have been any fun to tell ten thousand year old stories around a ten thousand year old pile of cold sticks.
Since chocolate is native to Mexico, they were well on the way to creating S’mores. The most difficult part was solving the marshmallow matrix.