History and Development of Artificial Fire 10

This is for the cave man on the top of the mountain... We are all moderns. ，

According to legend, the fire originated in Shangqiu, Henan, and there is a local place called Huoshentai. If you're really interested, check it out! There are many legends about fire.

The first to start artificial fire was the "cave man".

Cave Man, a Late Paleolithic human fossil in North China. It belongs to Homo sapiens in the late stage. It is named after the cave found at the top of the Peking Man site in Zhoukoudian Dragon Bone Mountain, Beijing.

The number of stone tools of the cave people is very small, 25 in total and none of them are representative. There are only 3 pieces of choppers, made of sandstone gravel. The scrapers are all made of flint or vein quartz chips, and one of the concave blades is more delicately made.

The two pole stone chips (or two-end blades) are mostly vein quartz, and there are traces of stone chips peeling at both ends. This stone flake has been found in the Peking Man site, and many cave people have used the same method to make tools.

1. The earliest artificially made fire was the cave man on the top of the mountain.

2. As early as the Paleolithic Age, humans have discovered the use of fire. The petrified ash and slag layer several meters thick in the Peking Man site in Zhoukoudong shows that humans learned to use fire at least four or five hundred thousand years ago.

3. The Cave Man is a human fossil from the Late Paleolithic period in North China. It belongs to Homo sapiens in the late stage. It is named after the cave found at the top of the Peking Man site in Zhoukoudian Dragon Bone Mountain, Sockyan City, Beijing.

The first people to make artificial fire were the cave people on the top of the mountain. Back in the Paleolithic period.

Humans have discovered the use of fire. The petrified ash and slag layers several meters thick in the Peking Man site in Zhoukoudong show that humans learned to use fire at least four or five hundred thousand years ago. The Cave Man is a region of northern China.

Late Paleolithic human fossils. It belongs to Homo sapiens in the late stage. It is named after the cave found at the top of the Peking Man ruins in Zhoukoudian, Beijing.

Cave Man: Along with human fossils, cave people unearthed stone tools, bone and horn tools, and pierced ornaments, and discovered the earliest known burial in China. The geological age is the late Pleistocene clump lead, which is dated by radiocarbon, and the age is similar to that of the local scene.

There are dense forests on the hills, and vast grasslands below. Tigers, cave bears, wolves, maned cheetahs, civet cats.

Wagyu cattle and sheep live in between. The cave people at the top of the mountain hunted for fishing and hunting and the skeleton of the Peking spotted deer, which should be their main hunting objects. Grass carp have also been found in the ruins.

The fossils of the large thoracic vertebrae and tail vertebrae of the carp family indicate that the cave man was able to fish for aquatic animals and expand the scope of production activities to the waters, which indicates the improvement of human ability to understand and use the natural world.

(about 500,000 years ago).

The use of fire is a great invention in the history of human technology. With fire, people can change from raw food to cooked food, so that the range of food can be expanded, which is of great significance to the development of people's brain and physique. Fire gives light and warmth to people, and can be used to protect against wild beasts, and it can be used to hunt wild beasts ......Therefore, the peoples of the ancient world had myths and legends about fire.

When did humans learn to use fire? Archaeological discoveries tell us that Peking Man was one of the first primitive people to learn to use fire. Several layers of ash were found in the caves where Pekingese lived, one of which was 6 meters thick at its thickest, indicating that the bonfires had been burning here continuously for a long time.

Among the ashes were many bones, stones, and trees that had been burned by fire. The ashes on the top layer were divided into two large piles. This shows that the people of Beijing not only know how to use fire, but also have the ability to preserve and manage fire.

Judging from the ethnological data, the oldest method of preserving the fire of the primitive peoples is mainly by bonfire, that is, constantly throwing firewood into the burning fire, making the flame burn higher when it is used, and covering it with ash when not in use, so that it will smolder; When you use it, remove the dust and add grass to ignite.

It is only when people move from using natural fire and keeping it alive to being able to make fire artificially that this powerful force of nature is the first to control this transformative substance. It is difficult to say exactly when artificial fire was invented. But the invention of artificial fire may be related to the process of making tools and processing of wood, stone, etc.

It has long been observed that when flint is processed, sparks are sometimes splashed. It has also been noted that when drilling, sawing, and scraping, the wood will heat up and even cause fireworks. With these revelations, and after a long period of experience, people finally invented the method of artificial fire.

In ancient books, there is a record of the "Suiren clan" teaching people to "drill the flint to make fire to dissolve the fishy", and it is also said: "Wood and wood are burning". Drilling, rubbing, sawing, and pressing all require certain skills, otherwise they will not be able to take out the fire.

The use of fire is a crucial step towards civilization. Thus, Engels said: "In terms of worldwide emancipation, frictional fire still surpasses the steam engine."