Early modern humans use fire to engineer tools from stone
Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 13:49
in Paleontology & Archaeology
TEMPE, Ariz. -- Evidence that early modern humans living on the coast of the far southern tip of Africa 72,000 years ago employed pyrotechnology -- the controlled use of fire -- to increase the quality and efficiency of their stone tool manufacturing process, is being reported in the Aug. 14 issue of the journal Science.