Post by washi on Apr 21, 2015 16:54:29 GMT
A team of scientists headed by Professor Curtis Marean, a paleoanthropologist with the Arizona State University Institute of Human Origins, announced in an article in the August 14, 2009 issue of Science, the discovery of evidence that human beings had used fire in a complex process to manufacture rock blades some 72,000 years ago. The discovery was made in an ancient rock shelter near Pinnacle Point on the south coast of South Africa.
Prior to this time it had been thought that the use of fire to produce stone tools first occurred in Europe, about 25,000 years ago, thus pushing back the achievement by 45,000 years, and giving more support for the theory that human life first originated along the South African coast.
Image by Erich C. Fisher/Arizona State University/ South African Coast Paleoclimate, Paleoenvironment, Paleoecology, Paleoanthropology Project (SACP4).
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