To: thackney
“Since the time humans first began to control fire around 400,000 years ago...”
Would love to see a source to back this up.
9 posted on
03/29/2011 9:22:28 AM PDT by
proudpapa
To: proudpapa
I know for a fact it was 400,001 years ago.
12 posted on
03/29/2011 9:24:17 AM PDT by
Lees Swrd
("Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order in the world as well")
To: proudpapa
Wikipedia probably.
Fire was used by Homo erectus in northern China more than 400,000 years ago, and there is sketchy evidence suggesting that it may have been used long before that (Gowlett, 1984, pp. 181-82).
http://www.dieoff.org/page137.htm
18 posted on
03/29/2011 9:27:36 AM PDT by
thackney
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