{"id":24507,"date":"2022-12-05T06:04:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T06:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/new-findings-may-indicate-that-fire-was-used-before-man-news-urix-foreign-affairs-news-and-documentaries\/"},"modified":"2022-12-05T06:04:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T06:04:25","slug":"new-findings-may-indicate-that-fire-was-used-before-man-news-urix-foreign-affairs-news-and-documentaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/new-findings-may-indicate-that-fire-was-used-before-man-news-urix-foreign-affairs-news-and-documentaries\/","title":{"rendered":"New findings may indicate that fire was used before man – news Urix – Foreign affairs news and documentaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The species Homo naledi was discovered around ten years ago in the Rising Star caves near Johannesburg in South Africa. Now scientists believe that they may have used fire and flames as a tool – before man, writes CBS News. After losing over 20 kilos last August, Professor Lee Berger finally managed to squeeze through the narrow passages in the cave system. – When I finally got down into the cave, I looked up. I saw that the ceiling of the cave was completely black. It was simply burnt, covered in soot, says the paleoanthropologist, who is a professor at the University of Johannesburg. He wanted to see for himself the place where colleagues found bone remains from the species Homo naledi, which may have lived as recently as 230,000 years ago. After researchers found the remains of a child in the caves, which they believed to be in some kind of burial chamber, Berger was criticized for assuming that the Homo naledi species buried its dead in underground chambers. The critics believed that it was not possible to make progress in these dark chambers without light. Professor Lee Berger holds the skull of a Homo naledi child. Photo: LUCA SOLA \/ AFP Burnt animal bones – They did not believe that the species Homo naledi, which had a very small brain, could use fire, Berger told CBS News. Based on the bone remains that were found, Homo naledi may have been around 150 centimeters tall and weighed around 45 kilograms. The brain is described as small, one third the size of a human brain. It is difficult to find clear answers with two lines underneath when researching something that happened several hundred thousand years ago. Individual findings are interpreted, put into context and debated among researchers. So far it has been agreed that the ability to use flames as a tool, and not least to be able to make them yourself instead of transporting them with you, has required a big brain. A homo sapiens brain. Berger and his team found no evidence that the species Homo naledi may have used fire until last year. The findings were not known until this weekend. On the same day that he discovered the soot marks on the cave ceiling, paleonathropologist Keneilo Molopyane found hearths with charred pieces of wood and burnt bones from antelopes and other animals nearby. This may indicate that the meat they ate was fried, the researchers believe. – I think they made a fire. Later they found remains of fireplaces in several places in the cave system. – Based on our findings, I think not only that they used the fire, but that they also made it. Maybe before us humans, says Berger. He believes the discovery of the hearths will challenge our assumptions about man’s unique ability to create advanced tools from what surrounds us in nature. – It should make us think about whether we have placed man on a pedestal as something very special, he says. Reproduction of the skull of a fossil of a Homo naledi that scientists now believe used fire in caves. Photo: WIKUS DE WET \/ AFP Paleonathropologist Andrew Barr at George Washington University has not been part of the research team. He believes the first step is to date the findings more precisely, before one can speculate on who made the fire – The main challenge for the researchers will be to date the burnt wood and bone remains, in order to be able to document that they date from the same time as Homo naledi- the fossils, says Barr, according to Sciencenews.
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