Flint and pyrite: making fire in the Stone Age.

From: Antiquity | Date: December 1, 1999| Author: JOHANSEN, LYKKE; STAPERT, DICK | Copyright information

Introduction

The domestication of fire must be ranked among the key `revolutions' in prehistory. The sociologist Goudsblom (1992) has drawn attention to the fact that of the main attributes of `civilization' -- tool-use, language and control of fire -- only one, control of fire, is beyond dispute exclusively human. Many publications have discussed the use and production of fire in prehistoric and historical times (to name a few important ones: Hough 1926; 1928; Birket-S...

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