Publication Date:
2004-05-01
Description:
The presence of burned seeds, wood, and flint at the Acheulian site of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov in Israel is suggestive of the control of fire by humans nearly 790,000 years ago. The distribution of the site's small burned flint fragments suggests that burning occurred in specific spots, possibly indicating hearth locations. Wood of six taxa was burned at the site, at least three of which are edible--live, wild barley, and wild grape.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Goren-Inbar, Naama -- Alperson, Nira -- Kislev, Mordechai E -- Simchoni, Orit -- Melamed, Yoel -- Ben-Nun, Adi -- Werker, Ella -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2004 Apr 30;304(5671):725-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel. goren@cc.huji.ac.il〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15118160" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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*Archaeology
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Edible Grain
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*Fires
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Fraxinus
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Fruit
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Geologic Sediments
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*Hominidae
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Humans
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Israel
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Olea
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Poaceae
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Seeds
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Wood
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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