Citation

Goren-Inbar N, Alperson N, Kislev ME, Simchoni O, Melamed Y, Ben-Nun A, Werker E. Science 2004; 304(5671): 725-727.

Affiliation

Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel. goren@cc.huji.ac.il

Comment In:

Science 2004;304(5671):663-5.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2004, American Association for the Advancement of Science)

DOI

10.1126/science.1095443

PMID

15118160

Abstract

The presence of burned seeds, wood, and flint at the Acheulian site of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov in Israel is suggestive of the control of fire by humans nearly 790,000 years ago. The distribution of the site's small burned flint fragments suggests that burning occurred in specific spots, possibly indicating hearth locations. Wood of six taxa was burned at the site, at least three of which are edible--live, wild barley, and wild grape.

Language: en