HUMAN CONTROLS OF FIRE

HUMAN CONTROL OF FIRE

About 1.6 million BCE (Before Common Era), the group who controls fire is Homo erectus the first group of early human to move into Europe and Asia. They used more advanced tools, like the hand axe. Controlling fire has been a hallmark of human culture since before the existence of modern Homo sapiens. Use and controls of fire was a gradual process proceeding through more than one stage. Early people obtained fire from natural resource, later developing a variety of methods to create fire artificially. These are the stage of Palaeolithic and also these are the early stage of the Stone Age. The Homo erectus first appeared in Africa about 1.8 million years ago, earlier it stated that the controls of fire proceeding through more than one stage

a) One was the change in habitat from dense forest, where the wildfires were rare.

b) And the next step the changed involved with burned landscape and foraging in the wake of wild fire as observed in various wild animals.

Early people obtained fire from natural resources later the developing some other methods to create fire artificially. The ability to create, controls, and use fire remains essential to human civilization. Each of these stages could occur at different intensities, ranging from occasional to habitual to” unable to survive without it”. 

Evidence of possible human control of fire has been found at South Africa. This site also shows some of the earliest evidence of carnivore’s behaviour in Homo erectus. humanity mastery of fire had an immediate and profound impact on its evolution . fire gave people a lots of cultural innovation first of all allowed them to illuminate the darkness, gave them protection from wild animals, these is kind of baby steps to the modern era, it also had a major impact on the innovation of tool and weapon manufacturing. More recent evidence dating to approximately 164,000 years ago found that early humans living in South Africa in the Middle Stone Age used fire as an engineering tool to alter the mechanical properties of the materials they used to make tools and improve their lives. Fire was so useful as art and cultural activity, Developments and expansion in early hominid societies, and also in cooking hypothesis. Harnessing fire in order to use its properties as a practice tools.