A new study claims that cilindro-conic artifacts and holed items found in Yarmukian Pottery Neolithic sites (6th millennium BCE) are the first known fire-making artifacts and not, as had been argued previously, ritual or cultural objects such as idols or game boards.
Naama Goren-Inbar et al., The Earliest Matches. PLoS ONE, 2012. Open access··> LINK [DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042213 ... For what they were...
Actualización 08-08-12. Archaeologists claim objects are earliest 'matches'
Researchers from Israel say that mysterious clay and stone artefacts from Neolithic times could be the earliest known "matches".
Although the cylindrical objects have been known about for some time, they had previously been interpreted as "cultic" phallic symbols.
The researchers' new interpretation means these could be the earliest evidence of how fires were ignited...
Actualización 08-08-12. Archaeologists claim objects are earliest 'matches'
Researchers from Israel say that mysterious clay and stone artefacts from Neolithic times could be the earliest known "matches".
Although the cylindrical objects have been known about for some time, they had previously been interpreted as "cultic" phallic symbols.
The researchers' new interpretation means these could be the earliest evidence of how fires were ignited...
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