when and how did man first manipulate fire?
Did man always have fire?
What’s the story with this?
According to this site humans or proto-humans have been doing it since b-4 there was modern man
Apparently, human beings were enjoying all the comforts of home as long ago as 465,000 years ago. That is the age of a fireplace found in a cave near Plouhinec on the coast of Brittany, France, and is quite possibly the oldest hearth ever discovered.
www.barnesreview.org/j/1996/8/TBR18.html+oldest+hearth&hl=en
TONTO: Fire GOOD!
TARZAN: Fire GOOD!
FRANKENSTEIN: Fire BAAAAAAAAAAD!!!
We now return you to your thread…
FWIW, this has to be the most difficult way to make a fire:
“The inhabitants here did also make use of a fire called ‘tin-egin’… which they used as an antidote against the plague, or murrain in cattle, and it was thus performed: All the fires in the parish were extinguished, and then eighty-one men, being thought the necessary number for effecting the design, took two great planks of wood, and nine of them were employed in turns, who by their great repeated efforts rubbed one of the planks against the other until the heat produced thereof produced fire; and from this forc’d fire, each family is supply’d with new fire, which is no sooner kindled than a pot full of water is quickly set on it, and afterwards sprinkled upon the people infected with the plague, or upon the cattle that have the murrain.”
–Martin Martin’s Descriptiions of the Western Islands of Scotland, 1716 (as quoted in the May 3, 2002 “Forgotten English” calendar)
jimmmy… the link doesn’t work
Holy crap Rookie523 I’m Sorry.
Copy n’ Paste this into google:
Apparently, human beings were enjoying all the comforts of home as long ago as 465,000 years ago
The first selection hit “Cached” (rather than the link itself) & it will take you there. My bad Duh. Sorry 'bout that kid (since your a Rookie) 