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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 .
Critics of the hypothesis argue that cooking with controlled fire was insufficient to start the increasing brain size trend. The cooking hypothesis gains support by comparing the nutrients in raw food to the much more easily digested nutrients in cooked food, as in an examination of protein ingestion from raw vs. cooked egg. [49]
The origins of culinary arts began with primitive humans roughly 2 million years ago. [3] Various theories exist as to how early humans used fire to cook meat. According to anthropologist Richard Wrangham, author of Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, [4] primitive humans simply tossed a raw hunk of meat into the flames and watched it ...
An earth oven, ground oven or cooking pit is one of the simplest and most ancient cooking structures. The earliest known earth oven was discovered in Central Europe and dated to 29,000 BC. [ 1 ] At its most basic, an earth oven is a pit in the ground used to trap heat and bake, smoke, or steam food.
Primitive Technology:A Book of Earth Skills. Wescott, David. (2001). Primitive Technology II: Ancestral Skill - From the Society of Primitive Technology. Wrangham, Richard. (2010). Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human. Basic Books; First Trade Paper Edition. Zimmer, Carl. (2007). Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins. Harper Perennial.
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).
A cloche or cooking bell is like an upside-down, fired ceramic bowl with a handle on top. It is heated in the fire along with a flat rock or open spot on the hearth. The prepared dough is placed on the hot rock or hearth floor, and then covered with the cloche, and perhaps hot coals or ashes for additional heat.
Feather stick ready to be ignited. A feather stick (sometimes referred to as a fuzz stick) is a length of wood which has been shaved to produce a cluster of thin curls protruding from the wood.