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Did Neanderthals use fire? And if so: since when? Some estimates have Neanderthals living in Asia 200,000 years ago. Has this been verified or debunked?
hi Indrek
Yes of course they used fire. They used it for heat and for cooking. They were the original Bar-B-Q experts. And since they evolved, they used fire. Even Homo Erectus used fire.
As for living in Asia, they did not go to far east but they were in Europe until about 40 thousand years ago. They exited from Africa some 600 thousand years ago and they have been found as far East in Asia as the URal mts and into The mountians of India. The last ones may have died out some 75 thousand years ago.
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| Comment | THANK YOU! 600,000 years! wow! That's a long time as the dominant ape north of Africa... how come they never went farther than the ural Mtns and india>? Sounds like the evidence for them being all over Asia is just missing. You'd thing iduring 600,000 years they went further than that... But then again there were Ice Ages tha scraped the northern continents of Europe and Asia clean regulalrly of any evidence... 600,000 years.... With the way things are going... I don't think modern humans will last that long. | ||
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