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stopdiggin

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1. yeah. except that both the 40 thousand, and the 350
Mon Jan 12, 2026, 12:28 PM
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are more or less guesstimate - or in other words WAGs. Humans, or human like, have been associated with fire ... For a good long while. The trouble rested in finding concrete evidence (tools) that would definitively point toward the 'manufacture' of fire. (rather than just the utilization, and employment).

Still, for what it's worth - have to agree that this is an interesting find - and a rather staggering date !

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