How did prehistoric humans discover fire making?
Early humans mastered fire-making, transitioning from using natural fires to intentionally creating and controlling flames.
Deborah Barsky is a writing fellow for the Human Bridges, a researcher at the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution, and an associate professor at the Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona, Spain, with the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). She is the author of Human Prehistory: Exploring the Past to Understand the Future (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
Early humans mastered fire-making, transitioning from using natural fires to intentionally creating and controlling flames.