Yes, this is a gun board, but it's a liberal gun board where we have wide and varied interests. I would argue that the use of fire led to the development of propellants and guns, but way after the times of these two articles. The first is a CBS video interview with researchers in South Africa. I don't know how to embed the vid link, so click it to watch. I expect a PBS/NOVA hour long show about this in the future. It is that homo naledi used fire.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/evidence- ... er-fire/#x
This article echoes the one below, about evidence of cooking foods from 780,000 years ago.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/wo ... r-AA14aPwP
I never worried about my enjoyment of my "ancient technology" Ruger Vaquero. I worry even less now. "Keep looking up." --Jack Horkheimer
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Fire use in pre-homo sapiens
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