The Boston Globe, January 30th, 1989
From Swartkrans cave in the Transvaal region of South Africa comes news of the earliest known use of fire. In a recent issue of Nature, archeologists C. K. Brain and A. Sillen, of the Transvaal Museum and University of Cape Town, report the discovery of charred bones more than 1 million years old. Swartkrans has long been a premier source for fossil evidence of early hominids (the family of primates whose only survivor is Homo sapiens). The cave has three levels of fossil-bearing rock, distinguished by episodes of erosion. Animal fossils and stone tools throughout the levels suggest that the d...
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