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Roebroeks, Villa
The timing of the human control of fire is a hotly debated issue, with claims for regular fire use by early hominins in Africa at ~1.6 million y ago. These claims are not uncontested, but most archaeologists would agree that the colonization of…
Type: Document
Year: 2011
Cannon
One of the more debated issues in western North American prehistory is the effect of postglacial maximum warmth and aridity on hunter-gatherer groups. Antevs (1955) described the 'Long Drought,' or Altithermal, as a period of warmer than present…
Type: Document
Year: 1996