Blog Journal
Nov. 12th 2010
Question:How does the use of fire demonstrate prehistoric people's ability to adapt to their environment?
Prehistoric people were the first inventors of fire. Creating fire influenced the entire lives of prehistoric humans. Fire provided many functions to prehistoric people. When prehistoric humans created fire it was perhaps an accidence. Although prehistoric humans didn't plan to create fire they probably knew what they were doing. Fire offered safety for tribes to avoid predators attacking against them and fire also beheaded foods. (Killed Bacteria & Toxins.) Inventing fire was a huge impact to early prehistoric human since by utilizing fire it could control pests and mosquitoes. Fire provided warmth for prehistoric humans to communicate and easily adapt to their environment. It provided light for early humans to hunt or chit-chat face to face. By discovering evidences, archaeologists found that the first humans to use fire were by Homo Erectus and centuries later Neanderthals created fire with stones. By linking fire to other resources we know that Homo Erectus were the first ones to create fire which gave them to adapt to their environment hasty. Fire showed prehistoric humans to observe natural phenomenon to their environment.
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