Fire Control by Early Humans 3
Fire Control by Early Humans 3 : Lower Paleolithic Evidence: A site at Bnot Ya'akov Bridge, Israel, has been claimed to show that H. erectus or H. ergaster made fires between 790,000 and 690,000 BP. To date this has been the most widely accepted claim, although recent reanalysis of burnt bone fragments and plant ashes from the Wonderwerk Cave have sparked claims of evidence supporting human control of fire by 1 Ma. In Xihoudu in Shanxi Province, China, there is evidence of burning by the black, gray, and grayish-green discoloration of mammalian bones found at the site. Another site in China is Yuanmou in Yunnan Province, where blackened mammal bones were found in 1985 and dated to 1. 7 Ma BP. At Trinil, Java, similar blackened bone and charcoal deposits have been found among H. erectus fossils, dated from 500,000 to 830,000 BP. Based on the feeding time comparison between human and nonhuman primates (4. 7% verse predicted 48% of daily activity), researcher has inferred that this is due to an evolutionary consequences of food processing dating back to 1. 9 million years ago. This may imply that control of fire as early as 1. 9 million years ago by the Homo genus
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