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Humans Were Using Fire Long Before Scientists Thought Possible, Study Says

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Humans Were Using Fire Long Before Scientists Thought Possible, Study Says

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Archaeology@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 month ago

An international team in South Africa has pinned the earliest known use of fire by Homo erectus back to between 1.07 and 1.79 million years ago.

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Can confirm, used fire in 2011.
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    Source: I made it up!
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