Earliest fire in Africa: Towards the convergence of archaeological evidence and the cooking hypothesis

Azania

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 5-30

  Gowlett, John A J ^a   Wrangham, Richard W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Diet; Fire use; Human evolution; Palaeolithic; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875824274     PISSN: 0067270X     EISSN: 19455534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0067270X.2012.756754     Document Type: Article

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