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Science 10 July 1998:
Vol. 281. no. 5374, pp. 251 - 253
DOI: 10.1126/science.281.5374.251
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Evidence for the Use of Fire at Zhoukoudian, China
Steve Weiner,
Qinqi Xu,
Paul Goldberg,
Jinyi Liu,
Ofer Bar-Yosef
Zhoukoudian is widely regarded as having the oldest reliable
evidence for the controlled use of fire by humans. A reexamination of
the evidence in Layer 10, the earliest archaeological horizon in the
site, shows that burned and unburned bones are present in the same
layer with stone tools. However, no ash or charcoal remnants could be
detected. Hence, although indirect evidence for burning is present,
there is no direct evidence for in situ burning.
S. Weiner, Department of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of
Science, Rehovot, Israel 76100. Q. Xu and J. Liu, Institute of
Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Academica Sinica, Post
Office Box , Beijing 100044, People's Republic of China. P. Goldberg, Department of Archaeology, Boston University, 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA. O. Bar-Yosef, Department of
Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
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