• DOI:10.1086/692530
Corpus ID: 148948219

Researching the Nature of Fire at 1.5 Mya on the Site of FxJj20 AB, Koobi Fora, Kenya, Using High-Resolution Spatial Analysis and FTIR Spectrometry

@article{Hlubik2017ResearchingTN,
  title={Researching the Nature of Fire at 1.5 Mya on the Site of FxJj20 AB, Koobi Fora, Kenya, Using High-Resolution Spatial Analysis and FTIR Spectrometry},
  author={Sarah Hlubik and F. Berna and C. Feibel and D. Braun and J. Harris},
  journal={Current Anthropology},
  year={2017},
  volume={58},
  pages={S243 - S257}
}

• Sarah Hlubik, F. Berna, +2 authors J. Harris
• Published 2017
• Sociology
• Current Anthropology

Some scholars explain the major anatomical characteristics that differentiate Homo erectus from its predecessor, Homo habilis, as the result of Homo erectus being adapted to use fire for cooking and other tasks. However, many scholars contend that the evidence of fire in Homo erectus sites is very scant and is not convincingly anthropogenic. This study presents a methodology to evaluate the evidence of fire associated with the 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus site FxJj20 AB, Koobi Fora, Kenya… Expand

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