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Early Human Fire Starters?
I am thinking that Fire was the number one key to where humans are today
In a field all their own from the other creatures on this planet...
How do you think some of these Fire Starters got to their point of mastering the flame?
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I think there was an Idiot Savant that saw Lightning split a tree and fire poured out
so this early human split sticks and tried feverishly to "ring the fire out" and got enough
friction to master the flame~ this process was passed on and on which brought about a
major shift in early humans...
also when you hit stones together they spark and you can smell smoke traces
I think this lead to flint being used too...
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what do you think?
3 Answers
- 8 years agoFavorite Answer
the first fire most humans would have seen (imo) would have been bush fires which start naturally all over the world.
the first fires would have been started by man by the use of flint on metal, maybe even when they were making tools out of flint by hitting it on harder rocks, which caused a spark.
- forgotLv 68 years ago
Maybe they discovered the flint method while making tools and seeing sparks come off.
How they invented the friction methods is very bizarre I can't imagine doing that by accident
- Anonymous8 years ago
It was that Dude, Prometheus, who brought fire to the mortals from the Gods. They punished him by having him chained to a rock with a vulture (or other carnivorous bird) peck away at his liver. His liver would then regrow and he would have to suffer it all over again...forever.
