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Fire also played a major role in changing food habits. Cooking allowed a significant increase in meat consumption and calorie intake. [34] It was soon discovered that meat could also be dried and smoked by fire, preserving it for lean seasons. [35] Fire was even used in manufacturing tools for hunting and butchering. [36]
Fire history, the ecological science of studying the history of wildfires, is a subdiscipline of fire ecology. Patterns of forest fires in historical and prehistorical times provide information relevant to the vegetation pattern in modern landscapes.
Fire frequency - this refers to the number of times fire occurs in a given area under a defined geologic time. The concept of fire frequency is often applied to local fire events. [25] Fire intensity - also known as fire severity or magnitude is the degree of fire or the magnitude of fire event. Fire intensity is categorized into low fire ...
10th century: Fire lance in Song dynasty China, developed in the 10th century with a tube of first bamboo and later on metal that shot a weak gunpowder blast of flame and shrapnel, its earliest depiction is a painting found at Dunhuang. [345] Fire lance is the earliest firearm in the world and one of the earliest gunpowder weapons. [346] [347]
Quest for Fire (French: La Guerre du feu) is a 1981 prehistoric fantasy adventure film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, written by Gérard Brach and starring Everett McGill, Ron Perlman, Nameer El-Kadi and Rae Dawn Chong.
Monstrous, windswept wildfires ripped through the Hawaiian island of Maui last week, charring communities and killing at least 100 people. NBC News reconstructed a timeline of events based on ...
On the eighth anniversary of Syria's crisis, this timeline shows how the war flared, the country splintered, foreign powers waded in, peace-making efforts failed, and Russia eventually helped ...
The wrecks of the Titanic and the Titan sit on the ocean floor, separated by 1,600 feet (490 meters) and 111 years of history. The Polar Prince, a Canadian icebreaker ship, steamed out of ...