期刊
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 109, 期 20, 页码 E1215-E1220出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1117620109
关键词
micromorphology; cooking hypothesis; Homo erectus
资金
- Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
- Wenner Gren Foundation
- National Science Foundation [0917739, 0551927]
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci [917739] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie [0551927] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
The ability to control fire was a crucial turning point in human evolution, but the question when hominins first developed this ability still remains. Here we show that micromorphological and Fourier transform infrared microspectroscopy (mFTIR) analyses of intact sediments at the site of Wonderwerk Cave, Northern Cape province, South Africa, provide unambiguous evidence-in the form of burned bone and ashed plant remains-that burning took place in the cave during the early Acheulean occupation, approximately 1.0 Ma. To the best of our knowledge, this is the earliest secure evidence for burning in an archaeological context.
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