Firemaker

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Published on May 17, 2025 8:09:41 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-JSfvpk1lE

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This Aurignacian woman from the Upper Paleolithic of Europe (43-26,000 years ago) is engaged in the process of making fire by drilling a stick into a pile of tinder. The heat which the friction produces is what will ignite the fire. This is one of a number of techniques that people (and possibly other hominin species) have used throughout time to produce fire for campsites and other purposes (another classic is striking rocks against one another to create sparks).

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