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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]
"The discovery of fire by humans: a long and convoluted process", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B—Biological Sciences, vol. 371, no. 1696 (2016).
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.
From man's discovery of fire to the deployment of the world's most powerful weapon, here's a look at 14 events that changed military history. Man discovers fire. Wikipedia.
Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material (the fuel) in the exothermic chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction products.
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 ...
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 .