Human control of fire
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Posted on 19-09-2023 02:24 PM
The ability to control fire was a dramatic change in the habits of early humans. Making fire to generate heat and light made it possible for people to cook
food
, simultaneously increasing the variety and availability of nutrients and reducing disease by killing pathogenic microorganisms in the food. The heat produced would also help people stay warm in cold weather, enabling them to live in cooler climates. Fire also kept nocturnal predators at bay. Evidence of occasional cooked food is found from 1 million years ago.
Although this evidence shows that fire may have been used in a controlled fashion about 1 million years ago, other sources put the date of regular use at 400,000 years ago.
The first human beings to control fire gradually learned its many uses. Not only did they use fire to keep warm and cook their food; they also learned to use it in fire drives in hunting or warfare, to kill insects, to obtain berries, and to clear forests of underbrush so that game could be better seen and hunted. Eventually they learned that the burning of brush produced better grasslands and therefore more game. With the achievement of agriculture in neolithic times in the middle east about 7000 bce, there came a new urgency to clear brush and trees.
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