SciShow's video: How Long Have We Been Playing with Fire

So we know that humans are pretty good at making fires, but how long have we been barbecue pit masters? Turns out the evidence is hardly a smoking gun. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Alex Hackman, Ash, Benjamin Carleski, Bryan Cloer, charles george, Chris Mackey, Chris Peters, Christoph Schwanke, Christopher R Boucher, DrakoEsper, Eric Jensen, Friso, Garrett Galloway, Harrison Mills, J. Copen, Jaap Westera, Jason A Saslow, Jeffrey Mckishen, Jeremy Mattern, Kenny Wilson, Kevin Bealer, Kevin Knupp, Lyndsay Brown, Matt Curls, Michelle Dove, Piya Shedden, Rizwan Kassim, Sam Lutfi ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow ---------- Sources: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-abstract/32/5/381/29429/Charcoal-in-the-Silurian-as-evidence-for-the?redirectedFrom=fulltext https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021ESRv..21603560B/abstract #:~:text=The%20relatively%20stable%20atmospheric%20oxygen,24.7%20%C2%B1%203.7%25%20BCM). https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=iMOnAgAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT11&dq=first+fire+on+earth&ots=i0MjxH7IOU&sig=NqcCXHDga-F2a2pdM_XiG6u6Ncc =onepage&q=first%20fire%20on%20earth&f=false -https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-earth-032320-095425 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248419301411 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3356665/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379108001480 https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/43885836/Fire_at_will_The_emergence_of_habitual_f20160319-1529-1wtvhtl-libre.pdf?1458389626=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DFire_at_will_The_emergence_of_habitual.pdf&Expires=1701889894&Signature=E1R6AnXes4XQsi-eK~LDF~WjV4Bus2nrGuMZYdL7nD~OGtq0hFK-KDpBUXVXV0seJmiS9xx~B3UlCEFfIFNCozXuJ7B0-i-3Hzp8tDfTL0CCl2atuGSoJ8TNTddtgweAG5jtVt0pTCBnuGytYHgq1q1Ic7G366ONALeBvdRZ6KYUiLnOWIALFc3sLV99~fttiPa6xUW-yNh-w4n0NT-3MH1FGq3vQ9TKXcPat2WTr3cJbYzrmBZp5clynZPM5zNT9L5Kk5oVLJGnx8uAHrBKL412ugdGwdNXKf56CpbQ9VelN0sAxgQ1dQZCt1tGoqpC5crb-rwJGlyDtyQ637uQKQ__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1544139/ https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/50/9/1048/614348/Silurian-wildfire-proxies-and-atmospheric-oxygen https://time.com/5295907/discover-fire/ # Sources: https://tinyurl.com/586s3h7u https://tinyurl.com/2s4kxc7w https://tinyurl.com/ypbr5k9p https://tinyurl.com/mvn4c93y https://tinyurl.com/ynr7u75y https://tinyurl.com/5bzntkbu https://tinyurl.com/5n7kjx2d https://tinyurl.com/bdexauvr https://tinyurl.com/6amuyk95 https://tinyurl.com/5ec7ad6j https://tinyurl.com/ypc7m5fh https://tinyurl.com/2ykr5cj4 https://tinyurl.com/bddzxu4v https://tinyurl.com/55cuv8bc https://tinyurl.com/ms2mrdfn https://tinyurl.com/ycy76dra https://tinyurl.com/65cjpu3r https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/burnt-tree-bark-camera-moves-along-charred-sequoia-tree-stock-footage/1216148806 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:21_Hugo_Reid_Adobe_(14)_-_A_Fire_Pit_Used_By_Tongva.jpg https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/dark-coal-royalty-free-image/184960655 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/closeup-of-flame-and-bonfire-in-the-evening-in-winter-stock-footage/1461433486 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/fire-in-cave-fantasy-background-stock-footage/1362056412 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flint-knapped_spearpoint_(Burlington_Formation,_Mississippian)_6.jpg https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/lava-flame-fire-exploding-pattern-abstract-sun-mars-royalty-free-image/1336521137 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Em_-_Homo_erectus_-_1.jpg https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/anthropology-royalty-free-image/187614154 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hula_1930s.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gesher_Benot_Ya%27aqov_(997009157703705171.jpg https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/dark-red-orange-brown-rock-texture-with-cracks-royalty-free-image/1435070204?phrase=cave+pattern&adppopup=true https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Israel._Nahal_Me%27arot_(15783370341).jpg https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/explosion-at-mine-stock-footage/547453650 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/chef-cooking-flambe-in-a-pan-looking-focused-stock-footage/1445476323 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/how-internal-combustion-engines-work-stock-footage/1428657123 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gesher_Benot_Ya%27aqov_(997009157824905171.jpg