ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Homo Erectus, Paleomagnetism, Three Steps
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Fire is a natural resource, not an invention: natural fire has seasonality, usually caused by lightning. Fire as a technique: can be collected, maintained, created, transported. Fire as a social reality: social thing. Fire as necessity: rangoum vs raw food movement: raw food bad for you, nutritional value goes way down. Fire as mystery: use of fire is common in religious rituals, symbols. Some evidence of fire survives archaeologically: hearths, charcoal, ash, wind-blocking walls. They used the fact that colours had changed as evidence of fire. Some evidence of burnt bone, but did not share physical association. 400,000 bp: burnt stone tools, stained rock patch, burnt animal bones found. Gesher benot yaakov, israel, 700,000 bp: small section 7x2m, stone tools, lava rock, basalt. Wrongham: origin of fire = origin of genus homo. Explanation: fire lead to change in diet and dentition. Roebrooks and villa: archaeological evidence of fire 400,000 bp.
