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Bow drill being used to make a fire. Bow drills with green jasper bits were used in Mehrgarh between the 4th and 5th millennium BC to drill holes into lapis lazuli and carnelian . Similar drills were found in other parts of the Indus Valley civilization and Iran one millennium later.
The ability to make fire, generally with a friction device with hardwood rubbing against softwood (as in a bow drill), was a later development. [ 13 ] Each of these stages could occur at different intensities, ranging from occasional or " opportunistic " to "habitual" to "obligate" (unable to survive without it).
Fire making, fire lighting or fire craft is the process of artificially starting a fire. It requires completing the fire triangle , usually by heating tinder above its autoignition temperature . Fire is an essential tool for human survival and the use of fire was important in early human cultural history since the Lower Paleolithic .
A fire drill, sometimes called fire-stick, is a device to start a fire by friction between a rapidly rotating wooden rod (the spindle or shaft) and a cavity on a stationary wood piece (the hearth or fireboard).
Or rather put fire to the mixture at the mouth of the pot, & by so doing make the same to burn before you doe throe the potte from you, because it is a better and more surer way than the other: I meane than to fire the said mixture after the pot is broken with burning gunmatches.
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A fire striker is a piece of carbon steel from which sparks are struck by the sharp edge of flint, chert or similar rock. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is a specific tool used in fire making . History
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