People use fire from 350,000 years ago

New research in an ancient cave in Israel shows evidence of people beginning to master how to use fire about 350,000 years ago.

The expert group at Haifa University concluded the use of human fire after the study in Israel's Tabun cave. According to them, the unique point of this cave is that it has been used continuously by humans for more than 500,000 years."We can step by step determine how the use of fire has changed in this cave," said researcher Ron Shimelmitz.

Caves and fire are two of the most important factors in human life in the early days.(Photo: VasGian / CC)

By examining the layers of flint in the cave, they identified signs that began about 350,000 years ago, when the rocks were in constant contact with fire.

According to UPI, the new findings contribute to confirming the survey results of experts from the Museum of Natural History at the University of Colorado, USA, done in 2011. They think people started using fire from about 300,000 years ago. - 400,000 years.

However, Shimelmitz and colleagues said that this result is unlikely to be the end of the debate topic over the years. Many opinions suggest that fire and cooking ability are factors that lead to small tooth structure, narrow intestinal size and larger human brain, features that date back about two million years ago.

Archaeologists, evolutionary and historical experts have long understood human development through milestones such as tool making, fire use, agricultural farming or writing. However, determining the time of the milestones is not a simple task, especially when people use fire regularly.

The latest research on the use of fire was published yesterday in the Journal of Human Evolution.