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Geochemical evidence for the control of fire by Middle Palaeolithic Hominins
| العنوان: | Geochemical evidence for the control of fire by Middle Palaeolithic Hominins |
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| المؤلفون: | Brittingham, Alex, Hren, Michael T., Hartman, Gideon, Wilkinson, Keith, Mallol, Carolina, Gasparyan, Boris, Adler, Daniel S. |
| المصدر: | Brittingham , A , Hren , M T , Hartman , G , Wilkinson , K , Mallol , C , Gasparyan , B & Adler , D S 2019 , ' Geochemical evidence for the control of fire by Middle Palaeolithic Hominins ' , Scientific Reports , vol. 9 , 15368 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-51433-0 |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| Time: | 2020 |
| الوصف: | The use of fire played an important role in the social and technological development of the genus Homo . Most archaeologists agree that this was a multi-stage process, beginning with the exploitation of natural fires and ending with the ability to create fire from scratch. Some have argued that in the Middle Palaeolithic (MP) hominin fire use was limited by the availability of fire in the landscape. Here, we present a record of the abundance of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), organic compounds that are produced during the combustion of organic material, from Lusakert Cave, a MP site in Armenia. We find no correlation between the abundance of light PAHs (3–4 rings), which are a major component of wildfire PAH emissions and are shown to disperse widely during fire events, and heavy PAHs (5–6 rings), which are a major component of particulate emissions of burned wood. Instead, we find heavy PAHs correlate with MP artifact density at the site. Given that hPAH abundance correlates with occupation intensity rather than lPAH abundance, we argue that MP hominins were able to control fire and utilize it regardless of the variability of fires in the environment. Together with other studies on MP fire use, these results suggest that the ability of hominins to manipulate fire independent of exploitation of wildfires was spatially variable in the MP and may have developed multiple times in the genus Homo . |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-019-51433-0 |
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