>The new discovery, **in the village of Barnham**, pushes the origin of human fire-making back by more than 350,000 years, far earlier than previously thought.
InspectorDull5915 on
As every year passes it becomes apparent that everything I learned about Pre-historic times, at school was not true.
Conscious-Country-64 on
No surprise the British invented fire-making. We’ve always been a nation of inventors. And we would be the richest country in the world by far if we’d patented it. But we allowed other people to use it as our gift to humanity. We should remember though, that every time a family huddles round a fire for warmth or uses one to boil water or cook food, they are using British technology.
SignalButterscotch73 on
That would put it way earlier than Homo sapiens and even Neanderthal, it would have been Homo heidelbergensis in the UK 400 000 years ago.
I’ll be honest, I’m a bit sceptical of that date. Hopefully it gets verified by other sources.
Keabestparrot on
That is a pretty astounding discovery, not every day you get to rewrite the story of human evolution like this.
Dic_Penderyn on
This is amazing news that firemaking was invented in Britain.
Historical_Owl_1635 on
That’s a really cool article, a lot of details, pictures and even cool scroll animations. Can tell a lot of effort has been put into it.
Yet, barely anyone has looked at it.
Then when the next low effort Farage quote article gets posted with 1000s of upvotes people will talk about the state of modern journalism.
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>The new discovery, **in the village of Barnham**, pushes the origin of human fire-making back by more than 350,000 years, far earlier than previously thought.
As every year passes it becomes apparent that everything I learned about Pre-historic times, at school was not true.
No surprise the British invented fire-making. We’ve always been a nation of inventors. And we would be the richest country in the world by far if we’d patented it. But we allowed other people to use it as our gift to humanity. We should remember though, that every time a family huddles round a fire for warmth or uses one to boil water or cook food, they are using British technology.
That would put it way earlier than Homo sapiens and even Neanderthal, it would have been Homo heidelbergensis in the UK 400 000 years ago.
I’ll be honest, I’m a bit sceptical of that date. Hopefully it gets verified by other sources.
That is a pretty astounding discovery, not every day you get to rewrite the story of human evolution like this.
This is amazing news that firemaking was invented in Britain.
That’s a really cool article, a lot of details, pictures and even cool scroll animations. Can tell a lot of effort has been put into it.
Yet, barely anyone has looked at it.
Then when the next low effort Farage quote article gets posted with 1000s of upvotes people will talk about the state of modern journalism.