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
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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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