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Fire was an important factor in expanding and developing societies of early hominids. One impact fire might have had was social stratification. The power to make and wield fire may have conferred prestige and social position. [35] Fire also led to a lengthening of daytime activities, and allowed more nighttime activities. [45]
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.
The timeline begins at the Bronze Age, as it is difficult to give even estimates for the timing of events prior to this, such as of the discovery of counting, natural numbers and arithmetic. To avoid overlap with timeline of historic inventions , the timeline does not list examples of documentation for manufactured substances and devices unless ...
The ability to control fire probably began in Homo erectus (or Homo ergaster), probably at least 790,000 years ago [192] but perhaps as early as 1.5 Ma. [125]: 67 The use and discovery of controlled fire may even predate Homo erectus.
Age of Discovery, European maritime exploration of Australia (1606–1802) Convict era (1788–1868) Victorian era (1837–1901) Federation era (1890–1918) World War II (1939–1945) Second Elizabethan era (1952–2022) [citation needed]
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 ABC sitcom originally starred Michael J. Fox, who left the show after four seasons following his Parkinson's diagnosis and was replaced by Charlie Sheen
The book contains the results of numerous experiments and establishes an early version of the law of conservation of mass. Working during the time just after Paracelsus and iatrochemistry , Jan Baptist van Helmont suggested that there are insubstantial substances other than air and coined a name for them – " gas ", from the Greek word chaos .