May 5, 2016
Dorothy Garrod – Scientist of the Day
Dorothy Garrod, a British archaeologist, was born May 5, 1892.
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Dorothy Garrod – Scientist of the Day
Dorothy Garrod, a British archaeologist, was born May 5, 1892.
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Israeli cave offers clues about when humans mastered fire
Mastering fire was one of the most important developments in human prehistory. But it’s also one of the hardest to pin down, with different lines of evidence pointing to different timelines. A new study of artifacts from a cave in Israel suggests that our ancestors began regularly using fire about 350,000 years ago—far enough back to have shaped our culture and behavior but too recent to explain our big brains or our expansion into cold climates.
If most archaeological sites offer a snapshot of the ancient past, Tabun Cave provides a time-lapse video. The site, about 24 kilometers south of Haifa, documents 500,000 years of human history. “Tabun Cave is unique in that it’s a site with a very long sequence,” says Ron Shimelmitz, an archaeologist at the University of Haifa and a co-author on the new study. “We could examine step by step how the use of fire changed in the cave.” Read more.