Primitive Mans Relationship with Fire and the Environment :: Environment Environmental Pollution Preservation

Primitive Mans Relationship with Fire and the Environment roughhewn knowledge holds it that primitive composition was a being barely more than developed than the ape, existing without nuance, innovation, or scientific prowess. This belief focuses especially on homo erectus, an ancestor of world who lived from about 2 million to rough 200,000 years ago. It is commonly believed that h. erectus was a creature existing in technological stasis, without the ability to advance his existence through innovation, and void of culture. This type of view could quickly be deepened, though, if recent discoveries hold true. Recent evidence points to a distinct possibility that h. erectus may have been the first ancestor of man to harness the power of evoke. Such a finding would greatly alter the current system of beliefs in regard to the evolution of man and the situation of mans ancestors during the time of h. erectus. These findings would indicate that h. erectus did have some culture, and some innovative science that allowed him to keep his environment. The evidence supporting the taming of fire by h. erectus is non beyond reproach, though. In fact, it has come under heavy questioning. A desire for unconstipated stronger evidence could eventually dispel the notion that this primitive version of man could control fire, and allow for maintenance of the current belief that man did not truly evolve into a being with any type of culture until the existence of homo sapiens. Up until the year 2000, a great regard of evidence surrounding mans use and control of fire indicated that such technology probably did not appear until roughly 200,000 years ago. The implication that h. sapiens was the first in the line of mankind to control fire was back up by evidence open up at a site in Zhoukoudian, China. While it had been believed for some time that Zhoukoudian was the first site of controlled fire, evidence found through more exhaustive research indicates otherwise. T here are no hearths at the site in China. Nor are there any regimen remnants. Such evidence leads to the belief that the burnt b wizards found at the site are probably the result of a natural fire (Wuethrich). The lack of strong evidence supporting the site as one in which mans control of fire is displayed supported the belief that h. erectus lacked technological prowess and culture. The next best candidate for the site of mans first documented control of fire was a collapsed sea cave in Menez Dregan, France.