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Human relatives struck sparks pinch robust pyrite and flint acold earlier than antecedently known
The first known method of producing occurrence (illustrated) progressive striking a lump of nan mineral robust pyrite against nan separator of a jagged portion of flint.
Craig Williams/The Trustees of nan British Museum
Four 100 1000 years ago, adjacent a h2o spread connected grasslands bordering a wood successful what is now confederate England, a group of Neandertals struck chunks of robust pyrite against flint to create sparks, lighting campfires connected aggregate occasions.
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