New discovery: humans were making fire some 350,000 years earlier than previously thought

[darkstar]

I find this sort of thing fascinating. Especially when previous findings seem to be off by a factor of 1O, here shifting the previous best estimate from 40,000 years ago to 350,000.

Anyway, thought some here might find it of interest as well.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/humans-were-making-fire-350000-years-earlier-than-previously-thought-study-finds

[stopdiggin]

1. yeah. except that both the 40 thousand, and the 350

are more or less guesstimate - or in other words WAGs. Humans, or human like, have been associated with fire ... For a good long while. The trouble rested in finding concrete evidence (tools) that would definitively point toward the 'manufacture' of fire. (rather than just the utilization, and employment).

Still, for what it's worth - have to agree that this is an interesting find - and a rather staggering date !

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