Fire Use

see also
Cooking
Prehistoric Diets
cooking, the activity and role of
Paleolithic

• The real reason humans are the dominant species -- BBCNews (28 March 2021)
  
  
• Cooking with fire: an extract from Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens: A Graphic History -- The Guardian (08 November 2020)
  
  
• When did humans discover how to use fire? -- LiveScience (08 August 2020)
  
  
• Paleolithic diet may not have been that 'paleo', scientists say -- The Guardian (11 January 2020)
  
  
• First We Made Fire! But It May Have Come With Some Downsides -- New York Times (05 August 2016)
  
  
• Smoke Signals: DNA Adaptation Helped Early Humans Deal With Toxic Fumes -- Guardian (02 August 2016)
  
  
• Fire Discovery Sheds New Light on 'Hobbit' Demise -- ScienceDaily (29 June 2016)
  
  
• No Giant Leap for Mankind: Why We’ve Been Looking at Human Evolution in the Wrong Way -- Conversation (14 June 2016)
  
  
• Did Ancient Climate Change Ignite Human Evolution? -- Scientific American (06 June 2016)
  
  
• Earliest evidence of fire making in Europe found [ca. 800,000 ybp] -- Science News (02 June 2016)
  
  
• A Fiery World Aids the Peopling of America -- ScienceDaily (23 May 2016)
  
  
• Global Data Shows Inverse Relationship, Shift in Human Use of Fire -- ScienceDaily (23 May 2016)
  
  
• Before Fusion: a Human History of Fire -- Conversation (22 April 2016)
  
  
• Neandertals May Have Used Chemistry to Start Fires -- Science (29 February 2016)
  
  
• Humans Settled, Set Fire to Madagascar's Forests 1,000 Years Ago -- ScienceDaily (18 February 2016)
  
  
• Volcanoes Sparked an Explosion in Human Intelligence, Researcher Argues -- LiveScience (28 December 2015)
  
  
• Ancient Campfires Show Early Population Numbers -- Phys.org (14 September 2015)
  
  
• Treasure Trove of Warrior Jewellery Unearthed in Russia: Ancient Grave Belongs to Woman Who Worshipped Fire 2,000 Years Ago -- Daily Mail (13 August 2015)
  
  
• 400,000 year-old lifestyle discovered in dental tartar -- Past Horizons (17 June 2015)
  
  
• 400,000-Year-Old Dental Tartar Provides Earliest Evidence of Humanmade Pollution -- ScienceDaily (17 June 2015)
  
  
• The shape of a perfect fire -- ScienceDaily (08 June 2015)
  
  
• Did Neanderthals Die Off Because They Couldn't Harness Fire? -- LiveScience (20 April 2015)
  
  
• Israeli Cave Offers Clues About When Humans Mastered Fire -- Science (12 December 2014)
  
  
• 770,000 Year Old Peking Man’s Controlled Use of Fire Confirmed -- Past Horizons (12 March 2014)
  
  
• Evidence for repeated fire use around 300,000 years ago -- Past Horizons (27 January 2014)
  
  
• 300,000-year-old hearth found: Microscopic evidence shows repeated fire use in one spot over time -- ScienceDaily (27 January 2014)
  
  
• Early Human Ancestor Surprisingly Smart -- LiveScience (12 March 2013)
  
  
• Meat, Cooked Foods Needed for Early Human Brain -- LiveScience (19 November 2012)
  
  
• Invention of Cooking Made Having a Bigger Brain an Asset for Humans -- Guardian (22 October 2012)
  
  
• Archaeologists Claim Objects Are Earliest 'Matches' -- BBC News (08 August 2012)
  
  
• The Earliest Matches -- PLoS ONE (01 August 2012)
  
  
• From the ashes: A million year old fire -- Past Horizons (04 April 2012)
  
  
• Evidence of 'earliest fire use' -- BBC News (03 April 2012)