Did the first inhabitants of the Caune de l’Arago between 700,000 and 400,000 years BP have domesticated fire? Did they know how to light the fire at will?

This note is a comment to the article “Search for early traces of fire in the Caune de l’Arago at Tautavel (Eastern Pyrenees, France), combining magnetic susceptibility measurements, microscopic observations, and Raman analysis” by Deldicque et al., published online on July 29, 2021, in Comptes Rend...

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Published in:Comptes rendus. Geoscience 2022-01, Vol.354 (G1), p.41-45
Main Author: de Lumley, Henry
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
17th century
Caune de l’Arago cave
Charcoal
Domestication
Fire
Magnetic minerals
Magnetic susceptibility
Middle Pleistocene
Raman spectroscopy
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Summary:This note is a comment to the article “Search for early traces of fire in the Caune de l’Arago at Tautavel (Eastern Pyrenees, France), combining magnetic susceptibility measurements, microscopic observations, and Raman analysis” by Deldicque et al., published online on July 29, 2021, in Comptes Rendus Géoscience in Volume 353, 2021, pages 247-264, https://doi.org/10.5802/crgeos.66. The authors’ response to this comment has also been published in Comptes Rendus Géoscience in Volume 354, 2022, pages 47-50, https://doi.org/10.5802/crgeos.114.
ISSN:1778-7025
1631-0713
1778-7025
DOI:10.5802/crgeos.113