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Fire As an Engineering Tool of Early Modern Humans

Published:2009-08-14 Issue:5942 Volume:325 Page:859-862
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
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Author:

Brown Kyle S.¹²,Marean Curtis W.²,Herries Andy I. R.³⁴,Jacobs Zenobia⁵,Tribolo Chantal⁶,Braun David¹,Roberts David L.⁷,Meyer Michael C.⁵,Bernatchez Jocelyn²

Affiliation:

1. Department of Archaeology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, Cape Town, Republic of South Africa.

2. Institute of Human Origins, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Post Office Box 872402, Arizona State University (ASU), Tempe, AZ 85287–4101, USA.

3. UNSW Archaeomagnetic Laboratory and Palaeosciences Laboratory, Integrative Palaeoecology and Anthropology Studies, School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Kensington, New South Wales 2052, Australia.

4. Geomagnetism Laboratory, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L693BX, UK.

5. GeoQuEST Research Centre, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong 2522, Australia.

6. Institut de Recherche sur les Archéomatériaux–Centre de Recherche en Physique Appliquée à l’Archéologie, CNRS-Université de Bordeaux, Maison de l’Archéologie, Esplanade des Antilles, 33607 Pessac, France.

7. Council for Geoscience, Post Office Box 572, Bellville 7535, Republic of South Africa.

Abstract

Friendly Fire Hints of the use of more advanced materials by humans, including symbolic marking and jewelry, appear about 75,000 years ago or so in Africa. Brown et al. (p. 859 ; see the Perspective by

Webb and Domanski

) now show that these early modern humans were also experimenting with the use of fire for improved processing of materials. Replication experiments and analysis of artifacts suggest that humans in South Africa at this time, and perhaps earlier, systematically heated stone materials, including silcrete to improve its flaking properties in making tools.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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