Fire and Early Man

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Fire also allowed the hominid Species Homo Erectus to populate other continents other than Africa. Although only Stone Age humans used fire in defence it impacted the population growth by having more humans survive the food hunts. rst fire was rarely seen or used because humans could not develop it and the only source of fire would have been from lightning, volcanoes, and piles of dry leaves suddenly igniting. “Specimens have been found in Africa, Europe, China, Georgia, India, and Java”2

. ” (Walker 21) Because fire allowed the creation of a spear the body had to adapt to the newly developed hunting style. When Homo erectus discovered fire they had adapted many uses to it, one of them was to cook food. Although fires were rare “phenomena” at the time, Paleolithic peoples still found use to it. This led to humans being smarter thus resulting in humans more capable to create and invent new tools and ways of hunting; more capable to adapt to the current environment they lived in and the environment that food led them to. The brain overtime grew larger since more and more nutrients were available to it through the digestion of cooked food rather than raw. They made fire by rubbing one stick back and forth against another, or by turning a stick rapidly in a hole in a dry log. Reduction in postcranial robustness then appeared for the first time among Africans towards the end of the Middle Pleistocene”1

So fire in fact affected our body structure making us more upright due to the newly developed weapon “the spear”, according to the Professor of Anthropology C. “As they began to cook their food-a much faster process than eating it raw-they had more time to pursue other activities. Thus hunters had greater success and the food supply increased.

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