Taming Fire

In this article we read about the use of fire. Fire has bin discovered by Homo Erectus. Homo Erectus lived 1.8 million years ago. They did not know exactly how to use fire, or how to make it, they just discovered it. Fire was learnt how to use 250,000 years ago. By this I mean used in hearths. Hearths are places where you lid a fire, something similar to what you make when you go out camping. These types of fires are nothing similar to wildfires. Wildfires are ones that occur naturally. This means, they occur when the temperature of dry places increases, so then fires are made. Wildfires are big and might even burn down a whole forest, while camping fires are small. Researchers recently found out that there even might have been use of fire 1,000,000 years ago! This was found out through analysis of chemical change. Maybe, we will find out some more interesting things these next few years! Let’s hope so!

Cox, Mary Beth. "Taming Fire The First Scientist?" Odyssey Oct. 2009: 29-30. Print.