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On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 10:18:03 -0500, Craig Smith <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Not until
>about 7000 BC did Neolithic man acquire reliable fire-making techniques, in
>the form either of drills, saws, and other friction-producing implements or
>of flint struck against pyrites.
Maybe even started.
From:
ralph m.rowlett
Department of Anthropology,University of Missouri,
Columbia,Mo.65211 ,U.S.A.21 v 99
"Stone artifacts are found in and around the fireplaces
at Koobi Fora FxJj 20 East.While most are basaltic,Isaac
and Harris (1997 :163 –64 )emphasize that an unusual
number of them are made of chert,a prime material for
striking sparks to start fires.Blackened and reddened
cherts seem to have been heat-altered. ...
These researches make it clear that H.erectus/ergaster
at Koobi Fora not only controlled fires but probably could
create them and had food closely associated with the
fireplaces.They clearly had the technological capability
of cooking tubers and other foodstuffs.The question is
whether they did so."
>Even then it was more convenient to keep a
>fire alive permanently than to reignite it.
Yes, even "frozen fritz",
though equipped with a fire making set in his belt,
carried a birch bark bag with glueing coal with him.
3000 m above the sea.
Amadeus
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