Fire (historical importance)

Historical Importance of Fire

Article Objective

• Students may understand the importance of "fire" for human biological evolution, social construction, and technological advance
  • role of fire in biological evolution of humans
  • role of fire for food preservation
  • role of fire for protection & cave inhabitation
  • role of fire for social organization
  • role of fire in technological advances, including
    • cave paintings
    • slash and burn agriculture Neolithic
    • hardening of wood for tools and weapons
    • pottery
    • metallurgy
    • Greek Fire

some notes for this article:

fire for cooking food, erlry hominid > releases nutrients > reduces role of gastronomical organs and allows caloric flow to brain = bigger brains

>> doewnside - inability of hominids to eat raw meat

> food preservation

  >> to address food preservation as conceptual knowledge! w

> fire as social organization > light / shadows > campfires / tell stories charcoal for cave paintings ink

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