Early Modern Humans Use Fire to Engineer Tools from Stone

Friday, August 14, 2009 - 08:42 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Evidence that early modern humans living on the coast of Africa employed pyrotechnology in their stone tool manufacturing process is being reported by researchers, including three from the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University, in the Aug. 14 issue of Science.

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