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SUMMARY:Smoke on the water\, fire in the cave? Evidence for fire making in
  the Palaeolithic - Dr. Andrew Sorenson\, Leiden University
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DESCRIPTION:_Fire has been so thoroughly engrained into the functioning of
  our modern society that it has become virtually invisible. But this was n
 ot always the case. In both the more recent and much deeper past\, the hea
 rth was the primary locus for domestic and social activities. Moreover\, f
 ire did not just appear at the push of a button or a strike of a match\, b
 ut had to be coaxed and conjured—sometimes through considerable effort
 —from inert materials like two pieces of wood vigorously rubbed together
 \, or from striking a piece of flint against a nodule of pyrite to elicit 
 sparks. My talk focuses in on this very aspect of our long history as “p
 yrophilic primates”: fire production. I will do my best to briefly outli
 ne the who\, what\, where\, when\, why and how of fire making by our Palae
 olithic ancestors\, as murky as the waters might be. I will therefore conc
 entrate on the shallower depths of time—where the water is a bit clearer
 —and discuss the archaeological evidence for fire production systems uti
 lized by late Neandertals and early modern humans in Europe during the Las
 t Glacial period._\n\n*To receive a Zoom link please register "here":https
 ://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpdemspj4jH9IxWu9mZNA_fFEgkznyWo_p
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LOCATION:McDonald Institute Seminar Room \, Department of Archaeology
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