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100-200 million years is way too much to be supported by our scientific consensus: Wikipedia on "Control of fire by early humans": Claims for the earliest def
by xaedes 7y ago
100-200 million years is way too much to be supported by our scientific consensus:
Wikipedia on "Control of fire by early humans":
Claims for the earliest definitive evidence of control of fire by a member of Homo range from 1.7 to 0.2 million years ago (Mya). Evidence for the 'microscopic traces of wood ash' as controlled use of fire by Homo erectus, beginning some 1,000,000 years ago, has wide scholarly support. Flint blades burned in fires roughly 300,000 years ago were found near fossils of early but not entirely modern Homo sapiens in Morocco. Fire was used regularly and systematically by early modern humans to heat treat silcrete stone to increase its flake-ability for the purpose of toolmaking approximately 164,000 years ago at the South African site of Pinnacle Point. Evidence of widespread control of fire by anatomically modern humans dates to approximately 125,000 years ago.
Wikipedia on "Mammals":
Mammals diverged from reptiles and birds in the late Triassic, 201kk-227kk years ago.
Wikipedia on "Dinosaur":
They first appeared during the Triassic period, between 243 and 233.23 million years ago, although the exact origin and timing of the evolution of dinosaurs is the subject of active research