{"id":446,"date":"2012-04-03T19:15:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T23:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=446"},"modified":"2012-04-03T19:31:38","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T23:31:38","slug":"how-long-ago-did-our-ancestors-use-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/how-long-ago-did-our-ancestors-use-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"How long ago did our ancestors use fire?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One million years ago. New research says that the earliest firm evidence is from a cave in South Africa where fires burned more than once in the same spot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/world\/ancestors-fire-a-million-years-study-article-1.1055213?localLinksEnabled=false\">Our ancestors used fire a million years ago, study says<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At that point they weren&#8217;t yet using fire on a regular basis &#8212; that came around 400 000 years ago. Around then our ancestors started using fire regularly for heat, cooking, and light.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artdaily.com\/section\/news\/index.asp?int_sec=2&amp;int_new=45731\">Study Says Use of Fire Relatively Recent in Europe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One million years ago. New research says that the earliest firm evidence is from a cave in South Africa where fires burned more than once in the same spot. Our ancestors used fire a million years ago, study says At that point they weren&#8217;t yet using fire on a regular basis &#8212; that came around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[39,19],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-human-ancestors","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}