Ancient Lakeshore Driftwood Fueled 780,000-Year-Old Campfires
TL;DR
Analysis of 266 charcoal fragments from the Gesher Benot Ya’aqov site shows early humans relied on driftwood along a lakeshore to keep fires burning, enabling repeated occupation and cooking fish, revealing advanced environmental knowledge and resource management during the Middle Pleistocene.
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