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Middle Pleistocene Fire Use Middle Pleistocene fire use Citation for published version (APA): MacDonald, K., Scherjon, F., van Veen, E., Vaesen, K., & Roebroeks, W. (2021). Middle Pleistocene fire use: The first signal of widespread cultural diffusion in human evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(31), [e2101108118]. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2101108118 Document license: CC BY-NC-ND DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2101108118 Document status and date: Published: 03/08/2021 Document Version: Publisher’s PDF, also known as Version of Record (includes final page, issue and volume numbers) Please check the document version of this publication: • A submitted manuscript is the version of the article upon submission and before peer-review. There can be important differences between the submitted version and the official published version of record. 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If the publication is distributed under the terms of Article 25fa of the Dutch Copyright Act, indicated by the “Taverne” license above, please follow below link for the End User Agreement: www.tue.nl/taverne Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us at: [email protected] providing details and we will investigate your claim. Download date: 28. Sep. 2021 PERSPECTIVE Middle Pleistocene fire use: The first signal of widespread cultural diffusion in human evolution PERSPECTIVE Katharine MacDonalda, Fulco Scherjona, Eva van Veena, Krist Vaesena,b, and Wil Roebroeksa,1 Edited by Polly W. Wiessner, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, and approved June 22, 2021 (received for review February 5, 2021) Control of fire is one of the most important technological innovations within the evolution of humankind. The archaeological signal of fire use becomes very visible from around 400,000 y ago onward. Interestingly, this occurs at a geologically similar time over major parts of the Old World, in Africa, as well as in western Eurasia, and in different subpopulations of the wider hominin metapopulation. We interpret this spatiotemporal pattern as the result of cultural diffusion, and as representing the earliest clear-cut case of widespread cultural change resulting from diffusion in human evolution. This fire-use pattern is followed slightly later by a similar spatiotemporal distribution of Levallois technology, at the beginning of the African Middle Stone Age and the western Eurasian Middle Paleolithic. These archaeo- logical data, as well as studies of ancient genomes, lead us to hypothesize that at the latest by 400,000 y ago, hominin subpopulations encountered one another often enough and were sufficiently tolerant to- ward one another to transmit ideas and techniques over large regions within relatively short time periods. Furthermore, it is likely that the large-scale social networks necessary to transmit complicated skills were also in place. Most importantly, this suggests a form of cultural behavior significantly more similar to that of extant Homo sapiens than to our great ape relatives. fire use | cultural behavior | Middle Pleistocene | Middle Stone Age | Middle Paleolithic Interaction with fire, including enhanced maintenance that the increasing evidence for the appearance of and production (1), is generally considered one of the regular fire use within a (relatively) restricted time win- most important processes within the cultural evolution dow (400 to 350 thousand y ago, ka) and across of humankind. Fire afforded hominins protection an extremely wide geographic region can be best against predators and cold, broadened the range of explained by cultural diffusion of skills related to fire edible foods and the amount of energy that could be use. In fact, the fire record might provide the first clear extracted from them through cooking (2), allowed ma- evidence of the emergence of cultural diffusion in the nipulation of materials (3), extended the length of day, evolution of humankind, indicating that a distinctive and impacted the character of social interactions (4). characteristic of the cultural behavior of Homo sapiens Fire gave hominins a means to increase the produc- was in place at this time. tivity of their habitats, over time significantly trans- The importance of cultural behavior is clear for our forming natural landscapes (5, 6). Fire also came with own species today: on a daily basis we use technology costs (7–9), as fire-using hominins had to collect fuel to that we could not invent ourselves, and contemporary be brought to a central place, calling for cooperation human cultures produce unique material and symbolic within a group (10). Given the impact pyrotechnology artifacts from complex technologies to languages to must have had, understanding the origins and devel- money and symbolic mathematics. Cultural behavior opment of fire use is relevant for our understanding of changed the nature of human evolution, and some the development of the niche of hominin species argue it played a role in the evolution of large-scale through time, including—as we argue here—the im- cooperation between nonfamily members (11), and of portance of cultural behavior. Indeed, we hypothesize aspects of cognition (12). Several authors see cultural aFaculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands; and bSchool of Innovation Sciences, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands Author contributions: K.M., F.S., and W.R. designed research; K.M., F.S., E.v.V., K.V., and W.R. performed research; and K.M., F.S., E.v.V., K.V., and W.R. wrote the paper. The authors declare no competing interest. This article is a PNAS Direct Submission. This open access article is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND). 1To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: [email protected]. Published July 23, 2021. PNAS 2021 Vol. 118 No. 31 e2101108118 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2101108118 | 1of8 Downloaded at TECHN UNIV EINDHOVEN INFORMATION AND EXPERTISE CENT on August 16, 2021 behavior as the explanation for the near-global distribution and the United Kingdom. In contrast, the record from 400 ka onward is success of H. sapiens (e.g., refs. 13 and 14). However, it is not clear characterized by an increasing number of sites with multiple fire when key characteristics of cultural behavior present in H. sapiens proxies (e.g., charcoal, heated lithics, charred bone, heat-altered today emerged and it is possible that some characteristics first sediments) within a primary archaeological context (19, 20, 28). appeared earlier than others. These characteristics include its of- Studies published following this review have strengthened this ten adaptive or inherent value, regional traditions, which are pre- pattern and identified its existence beyond Europe. In the Gruta sent in a number of species (15, 16), and the accumulation of da Aroeira cave site (Portugal), for example, fire proxies in the elements, or “ratcheting,” which is rare in nonhuman animals form of heated bones start to appear in layers dated to 400 ka (29). (17), and may also include the rapid spread of socially learned At Bolomor Cave (Spain), 14 hearths associated with heated ma- behaviors over large distances. terials have been excavated from multiple levels dating from 350 Cultural transmission is one of several processes by which to 100 ka (30). Fire proxies are present at open-air as well as rock- elements of cultural behavior (ideas, behavior, and artifacts) can shelter sites, and there are open-air sites at which such fire evi- spread. It refers to the process of passing on, through social dence is repeated many times, over long periods, such as at learning, cultural traits from one individual to another. Cultural Biache-Saint-Vaast (France) dating to 240 to 170 ka (31). Fire was transmission may give rise to several patterns: local traditions, used to gain access to deep caves (32), for production of pitches cumulative culture, and the focus of the present paper, the wide (3), and processes such as cooking, which are documented for late distribution of cultural traits. Here, we use the term “cultural dif- Neandertals (33) but may have been relevant earlier too. Impor- fusion” to describe the spread of cultural traits from one popula- tantly, for the Levant, Shimelmitz et al. (34) estimate the emer- tion to the next, through processes of cultural transmission. gence of habitual fire use at 350 to 320 ka, a date based on the Studies of the diffusion of cultural traits have focused on major long and well-dated sequence of Tabun Cave (Israel), as well as on innovations. Classic studies of the diffusion of innovation address a review of the evidence from a range of other sites in the Levant. farming, hunting, pottery, architectural technology and the adop- At Qesem Cave (Israel), in addition to evidence for extensive tion of architectural styles [reviewed in Amati et al.
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