How did early humans know how to make fire?
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We didn’t for quite awhile. People took the Olympic Torch method with it and just kept one burning constantly. Our relationship with fire was probably fairly quick to understand that if you can find a fire you can bring one back with you. Us actually understanding how to supply the ignition source was probably an accident. The fuel is easy to see. Oxygen we had an abundance of, but the ignition source would’ve been a mystery outside of lightning or lava, etc. Us understanding how to create an ignition probably happened when someone dropped a flint stone and saw the sparks. Maybe even luckier the flint dropped against a sharp rock and the sparks hit dry grass. Someone familiar with fire characteristics of smoke would’ve seen this and immediately thought of a fire more than likely. Wouldn’t take long to start experimenting with that flint rock until they made it work. Pretty much what we do now.
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