Tag Archives: fire

Ancient solutions to modern problems? Re-examining burning practices

By Francine Barone A few years ago, HRAF posted a story titled Burning questions: evidence for off-site fire use by hunter-gatherers in eHRAF Archaeology, which was written in follow up to the publication of a…

Burning questions: evidence for off-site fire use by hunter-gatherers in eHRAF Archaeology

By Francine Barone An insightful publication by Fulco Scherjon, Corrie Bakels, Katharine MacDonald, and Wil Roebroeks in the June 2015 issue of Current Anthropology sheds new light on present-day and historical fire setting practices among…