The Evidence for Controlled Use of Fire

question 57

Multiple Choice

The evidence for controlled use of fire:

• A)goes back about one million years
• B)occurred very early in hominin history,perhaps with the Australopithecines
• C)is associated closely with the manufacturing of the first stone tools
• D)seems to be one of the lastest of hominin primary cultural developments dating only to about 25,000 years ago

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