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Fire was brought into our world many years ago. Although we do not know the exact date fire came into existence, we do know that it was used by H. ergaster. They lived in Africa and Europe which was very cold. As they moved from Africa to Europe, they needed the use of fire to continue their journey through the winter. Homo heidelbergensis also used fire around 300, 000 BC. They used fire to drive animals over cliffs and into areas where groups of 20-30 people were waiting to kill the animals. There were 40,000 such groups in the world! | Fire was brought into our world many years ago. Although we do not know the exact date fire came into existence, we do know that it was used by H. ergaster. They lived in Africa and Europe which was very cold. As they moved from Africa to Europe, they needed the use of fire to continue their journey through the winter. Homo heidelbergensis also used fire around 300, 000 BC. They used fire to drive animals over cliffs and into areas where groups of 20-30 people were waiting to kill the animals. There were 40,000 such groups in the world! | ||
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Fire was brought into our world many years ago. Although we do not know the exact date fire came into existence, we do know that it was used by H. ergaster. They lived in Africa and Europe which was very cold. As they moved from Africa to Europe, they needed the use of fire to continue their journey through the winter. Homo heidelbergensis also used fire around 300, 000 BC. They used fire to drive animals over cliffs and into areas where groups of 20-30 people were waiting to kill the animals. There were 40,000 such groups in the world!
Information Sources: chapter thirteen: from hominin to homo [[1]] ,
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