Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins

 (sciencedirect.com)

35 points | by wslh 2 days ago

5 comments

  • kid64 41 minutes ago
    The whole idea of dependence on recurring natural fires always seemed suspect to me.
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    • AlotOfReading 5 minutes ago
      It shouldn't. It's been extensively documented among modern human groups.

      The major question is how much our understanding from recent forager groups applies to pleistocene foragers ("ethnographic analogy"). I'm in the generally skeptical camp. Many other anthropologists aren't, particularly those in older generations.

  • tclancy 4 hours ago
    Either I missed it or the author assumed we were both on the same page: GBY seems to be a spot on a river just north of the Sea of Galilee.

    GBV continues to be the band, who are due to release albums with each of these names within the next five years.

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    • showerst 3 hours ago
      GBY is Gesher Bnot Ya'akov, an archeological site in Israel, it’s in the first paragraph of the abstract.
    • _alternator_ 2 hours ago
      The site also has been dated to ~790,000 years old. Also was hard to find in a quick skim. So, direct evidence of the types of firewood humans have been using for the better part of a million years. Neat.
  • SummSolutions 2 hours ago
    Fascinating paper, providing great evidence that our ancestors were maximizing resources hundreds of thousands of years ago.
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    • frutiger 2 hours ago
      Our ancestors have been “maximizing resources” for hundreds of millions of years, and all our living relatives alive today continue to do so.
  • l4tq3 56 minutes ago
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  • thunkle 2 hours ago
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