Fire (historical importance)

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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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