2007-10-28 18:20:58 · 1 answers · asked by In Your Mind 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Lightning strikes. It is the only common, repeatable event in nature that causes fire. You asked how they "discovered" fire, not how they "made" fire". When lightning caused a fire, early man discovered uses for it. Providing warmth and cooking food. When a fire was started by lightning, they learned to gather hot embers and retain them. As long as they kept adding fuel to the embers, they learned they could keep fire indefinitely. It was until much later, after early man had mastered fire and was making tools that he learned that friction caused heat and rubbing sticks together could create fire. The same goes for flint. It was during the making of flint tools that a spark from chipping the stones may have landed in some dry tinder and started a fire.
2007-10-28 18:25:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Homo Erectus Fire
2016-12-15 07:54:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suggest you write H-omo, the Latin word for 'Man', in such a fashion that it cannot, and will not, be censored by Yahoo! Answers or mistaken as a slur against homosexuals.
H-omo Erectus either rubbed those sticks against each other until smoke appeared, or a lightning strike caused a fire and HE thought it was just what HE needed to keep warm.
Sadly, for us amateur historians, HE didn't leave behind any detailed written records.
2007-10-28 18:31:46 · answer #3 · answered by WMD 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know this one.
There was a fire on the mountain that happened accidentally.
Homo Erectus ate animals whom died from the fire.
The meat was cooked and people thought it taste better that way. They discovered charcoal from the burned tree, and they kept it and restore the fire every time they needed it.
2007-10-28 18:26:59 · answer #4 · answered by leonardo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When Was Fire Discovered
2016-09-30 07:53:46 · answer #5 · answered by hone 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably from a Lightning strike or volcanic eruption
2007-10-28 18:53:41 · answer #6 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you think there was such a man as Homo Erectus? There is no proof to this theory, and no fossil of "him" has been found.
I think Homo Sapiens knew how to make fire by instinct.
2007-10-28 19:30:03 · answer #7 · answered by pegasegirl 3 · 0⤊ 5⤋
Are you saying he had a hard on for burning things! Great theory!
2007-10-28 18:23:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I suggest you do your own homework.
2007-10-28 18:22:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
by rubbing two rocks together
im serious
2007-10-28 18:23:28 · answer #10 · answered by Just wonderin' 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋