Researchers Find Evidence That Man Used Fire 680,000 Years Ago
History is being rewritten again thanks to excavations in China where researchers were able to find evidence of the use of fire for several purposes, and that, over 600,000 years ago.
Chinese scientists claim that one of the oldest ancestor to man, the Peking man used fire and made its first meals using fire approximately 600,000 years ago.
They came upon this conclusion by analyzing fireplaces enclosed by a circle of rocks and burned rocks which were recently discovered in an archaeological site in the suburbs of Beijing.
Gao Xing, with the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences states that he and his team have spent around three years excavating in at the archaeological site called Zhoukoudian.
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Chinese scientists claim that one of the oldest ancestor to man, the Peking man used fire and made its first meals using fire approximately 600,000 years ago.
They came upon this conclusion by analyzing fireplaces enclosed by a circle of rocks and burned rocks which were recently discovered in an archaeological site in the suburbs of Beijing.
Gao Xing, with the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences states that he and his team have spent around three years excavating in at the archaeological site called Zhoukoudian.
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