When: 790,000 BCE
From Year 0 (BCE/CE): -790000
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Fire-Altered Stone Tools

"File:Flint tools, Numbers 41-64 (Top left to bottom right) (FindID 132815).jpg" by The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Adam Daubney, 2006-05-17 10:54:28 is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

Fire-Altered Stone Tools

31,600 Generations Ago

Burned flint tools dated to circa 790,000 BCE were discovered at Gesher Benot Ya’aquov, Israel. Control of fire is one of the key traits of the genus Homo.

 

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