Oil Lamps
Portable lamps burning animal fat or plant oils, extending productive and ritual activity beyond daylight.
Core metadata
- ID: oil_lamps
- Era: Ancient
- First known date: -9500 (unknown)
- Region: Afro-Eurasia and other historical societies
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: N/A
Prerequisites
Dependents
Fields
- None.
Node sources
- Early pottery at 20,000 years ago in Xianrendong Cave, China (Science / PubMed, 2012, primary_paper) • Supports: edge, node
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 3
- Average edge confidence: 70%
- Prerequisite sources: 3
- expert_inference: 3
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pottery (pottery) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Pottery provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. |
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| Animal Husbandry (animal_husbandry) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Animal Husbandry provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. |
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| Fire Control (fire_control) | historical_predecessor | 75% | expert_inference | Fire Control is an earlier historical predecessor or foundation, not a one-to-one engineering dependency. |
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