On the earliest evidence for habitual use of fire in Europe

By W. Roebroeks, P. Villa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2011

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Subfields: Anthropology, Archeology, Paleontology

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An Unshakable Middle Paleolithic? (2013, background): “…2010; Gowlett et al. 2005; Karkanas et al. 2007; Preece et al. 2006), but the record of fire becomes ubiquitous with the beginning of the MP (e.g., Albert, Berna, and Goldberg 2012; Fernández Peris et al. 2012; Goldberg et al. 2012; Roebroeks and Villa 2011; Rolland 2004; Vallverdú et al. 2012).”
The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth (2011, background): “Our purpose here is to describe the historical development of humanity’s relationship with fire and the role humans play in the diversification of contemporary fire regimes globally, thus providing a framework for thinking about how humans influence fire regimes in space and time.”
Global Biodiversity Change: The Bad, the Good, and the Unknown (2012, background): “There have always been natural fires associated with lightning and volcanic activity, and therefore the co-occurrence in an archeological site of burning and artifacts does not necessarily imply a causal link between the two (22, 23).”
Early Evidence for Brilliant Ritualized Display: Specularite Use in the Northern Cape (South Africa) between ∼500 and ∼300 Ka (2016, background): “In Europe and the Near East, this occurs between ~400 and ~300 Ka (Chazan 2009; Roebroeks and Villa 2011; Shimelmitz et al. 2014; Stiner, Gopher, and Barkai 2011).”
Rewilding: Science, Practice, and Politics (2015, background): “Although, some argue for pushing this benchmark back further, as Homo has been using fire for several hundred thousand years, and this may have affected many ecosystems (61).”
Earliest fire in Africa: towards the convergence of archaeological evidence and the cooking hypothesis (2013, methodology): “We set out to make a new evaluation of the African record, just as Roebroeks and Villa (2011) have made a new survey of the European evidence.”
Synthesis, part of a Special Feature on Exploring Social-Ecological Resilience through the Lens of the Social Sciences: Contributions, Critical Reflections, and Constructive Debate Conceptualizing power to study social-ecological interactions (2016, background): “With increased selfdomestication, or habituation, hominids’ control of fire became more enduring and stable (Roebroeks and Villa 2011).”
Experimental Approaches to Archaeological Fire Features and Their Behavioral Relevance (2017, background): “Roebroeks and Villa (2011) suggest that early European hominins did not “habitually” use fire before 400 kya, whereas clear evidence for pyrotechnology exists in later Neanderthal contexts.”