Fire Control
Controlled use and maintenance of fire by hominins, evidenced archaeologically by in situ burning, ash, and burned bone.
Core metadata
- ID: fire_control
- Era: Ancient
- First known date: -1000000 (millennium)
- Region: Wonderwerk Cave, Northern Cape, South Africa
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: established
Prerequisites
None.
Dependents
- Basic Chemistry (Early Forms) (basic_chemistry_early_forms)
- Charcoal Pit Kilns (charcoal_pit_kilns)
- Charcoal Production (charcoal_production)
- Clay Gathering and Preparation (clay_gathering_and_preparation)
- Concrete (concrete)
- Advanced Distillation (distillation_advanced)
- Early Boats (early_boats)
- Glassmaking (glassmaking)
- Hide Glue Production (hide_glue_production)
- Horticulture (horticulture)
- Lead Working (lead_working)
- Leather Tanning (leather_tanning)
- Leather Working (leather_working)
- Lighthouses (lighthouses)
- Lime Plaster (lime_plaster)
- Paleolithic Birch Tar Adhesive (natural_adhesives)
- Ochre Pigment Processing (ochre_pigment_processing)
- Oil Lamps (oil_lamps)
- Oil Wick Lamps (oil_wick_lamps)
- Pigment Creation (pigment_creation)
- Pottery (pottery)
- Salt Harvesting (salt_harvesting)
- Smoked Food Preservation (smoked_food_preservation)
- Volcanic Ash Utilization (volcanic_ash_utilization)
- Refined Dugout Canoes (wooden_dugout_canoe_refinement)
Fields
Field lanes
- Energy Systems & Grid: Foundations
- Materials Science & Manufacturing: Foundations
Node sources
- Microstratigraphic evidence of in situ fire in the Acheulean strata of Wonderwerk Cave, Northern Cape province, South Africa (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012, primary_paper) • Supports: node, maturity
- The discovery of fire by humans: a long and convoluted process (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2016, review) • Supports: node, maturity
Prerequisite edge evidence
No prerequisite edge evidence is yet recorded.
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No prerequisite edges recorded. | |||||
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