{"id":889,"date":"2004-05-04T02:52:36","date_gmt":"2004-05-04T02:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=889"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:32:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:32:59","slug":"archeology-earliest-evidence-of-fire-use-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=889","title":{"rendered":"archeology: earliest evidence of fire use found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Israeli researchers have discovered what could be  the oldest-known remnants from fires made by humans, suggesting mankind  controlled fire nearly 790,000 years ago. In a study published in the  April 30 <em>Science,<\/em> Naama Goren-Inbar of Hebrew University and colleagues  report analyzing burned seeds, wood, and flint found at Gesher Benot  Ya&#8217;aqov, an archeological site in Israel. The distribution and  clustering of the burned small flint fragments hints that the fires  occurred in specific spots, which may have been hearths. The researchers  believe the fires were set intentionally because most of the flint  andwood at the site is unburned, suggesting that wildfires were not the  cause. Although it&#8217;s unclear exactly what species of human set the  fires, whether <em>Homo erectus, Homo ergaster<\/em> or <em>archaic Homo sapiens,<\/em> the  evidence at the site suggests the fire users hunted and processed meat,  gathered plant foods, quarried rock, and made stone tools.  As the  authors write, in what could be construed as an understatement, &#8220;The  domestication of fire . . . surely led to dramatic changes in behavior  connected with diet, defense, and social interaction.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Discoveries column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 5\/04\/2004.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli researchers have discovered what could be the oldest-known remnants from fires made by humans, suggesting mankind controlled fire nearly 790,000 years ago. In a study published in the April 30 Science, Naama Goren-Inbar of Hebrew University and colleagues report &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=889\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":891,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}