In Israel found the world's oldest hearth
Scientists locate, apparently, the oldest place on Earth, a man uses for permanent cultivation fire for cooking. It appeared to be a cave Kesem, located under the metropolis of Rosh Ayin in Israel, reports NEWSru Israel.
Analysis of soil samples taken in the center of the cave, has allowed to establish 2 period cultivation in this place flame, separated by a period in which the cave was empty. The upper age earlier of these periods is estimated at 300 thousand years, is told in research of scientists from the Weitzman Institute and tel Aviv University. The results of this study were published this week in the journal of Archeological Science.
Scientists are that man has learned to use fire for about a million years ago, however, to this day, the age of the earliest no doubt as evidence of the control of the inhabitant of our planet over the fire and its use on an ongoing basis with the aim of cooking was perceived 110 thousand years (falls Calamba in Zambia).
Excavations in the cave Kesem held since 2000. In 2010 it got international popularity in connection with the discovery of evidence likely to stay in it reasonable person a few 10-s 1000-years before it appears in Africa. This assumption is based on the analysis found in the cave of human teeth.
Cave Kesem unique even in connection with its absolute isolation from the world for many a 1000 years. In consequence of long use in ancient times over the years has become uninhabitable, after this natural process is practically sealed the entrance.
She was casually opened again at the end of XX century in the course of expansion took place near the road. In the cave were seen signs of human presence Acheulian-brodskoj culture, not mixed with traces of followers later cultures.
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