Burning rock: Fire setting at the Stone Age Melsvik chert quarries

Vídeo YouTube por Per Storemyr Archaeology & Conservation el 27/08/2013 añadido a Paleo Vídeos > Prehistoria Universal > L.R.2.5 nº 10.

In the Melsvik Stone Age chert quarries near Alta in Northern Norway there are dozens of extraction marks that are difficult to explain by other ancient techniques than fire setting. Hence within the Melsvik archaeological project, run by the University Museum of Tromsø, experimentation was carried out with fire in order to substantiate that it actually formed an important method of breaking loose small and big pieces of stone. [...] pasthorizonspr.com (B&W3)