When was fire was discovered by mankind? and how human eat meat before that?

Approximate era where human discovered fire.. and how animals or fish is eaten by men before the discovery of fire?





Knife or chopping tools wasn't available that time, how they butcher their catch? with bare hand or teeth??

When was fire was discovered by mankind? and how human eat meat before that?
Yep ... teeth, hands, stones and sticks ... raw fish = sushi :)
Reply:Hands and stone or pointed sticks, but we are not certain when fire was discovered as useful
Reply:they made stone tools back in the stone age
Reply:Well, before fire, people ate meat liike animals did. Once they found fire, they used it to COOK the meat. After that, their gall bladder and appendix became useless for processing the raw meat, that's why people have their gall bladder and appendix removed. It's true! We don't need it to process raw meat bacteria. Hope this helped! :)
Reply:not sure of the era, but humans have been scavengers and hunters for as long as they have been around, so even without fire they would have been eating raw meat, as every other carnivorous animal does. they also had different digestive enzymes and anti-viruses to protect them from the bacteria of raw meat.
Reply:It all began as steak tartar and sushi!
Reply:The earliest evidence for control of fire by humans, in the form of fires at Swartkrans, South Africa and at Chesowanja, in Kenya, suggests that it may possibly have been in use there as early as about 1.4 or 1.5 million years ago.[100] However, the interpretation of the physical evidence at these early sites has been under question in the archaeological community for some years now, with critics saying these fires could have been wildfires instead of human-made fires. They suggest the evidence for human control of fire might be a misreading of other factors, such as magnesium-staining of soils, which can mimic the results of fire if not specifically accounted for. For indisputable evidence of fire intentionally set and controlled by humans, the presence of a hearth or circle of scorched stones is often demanded as conclusive proof,[101] and at these early sites, the evidence tying the fires to human control is based on other factors
Reply:It was discovered during phehistoric time in the stone age and meat was eaten raw before that.
Reply:Before fire was discovered humans ate raw meat or fish. A knife was usually available in the form of a sharp stone that could tear at flesh. Fingernails were probably much stronger then. But mostly, humans ate vegetables.
Reply:I don't know about the fire, but 150 years ago, the pioneers that crossed America ate raw meat on the trail at times, so the Indians couldn't see the smoke from a fire. In some respects it was healthy, because it had live enzymes. I diffidently wouldn't attempt that with today's commercial meat. So, I would assume that before fire, they ate everything raw.
Reply:According to the ancient Vedas which came with the whole creation Billions of years ago,this age was the purest age for mankind. They where way more advanced in every aspect and they didn't look like apes. Read the books The Hidden History of the Human Race and Forbidden Archeology by Michael A. Cremo. They have heaps of archaeological finding s to support this truth. And of course fire was immediately known to man then.
Reply:Around the late Pleistocene era. They most likely ate with their bare hands and teeth.
Reply:during Stone age, some 5000 years ago. . . b4 that, meat is eaten raw. P/s chopping tools and knife made of stones and wooden sticks were already available since Stone Age. . .
Reply:There's a good reason to believe that early humans were foraged and scavenged for the majority of their caloric intake. One, we are not very fast and two, we do not have claws and teeth to take down prey, so we must have been eating other things prior to inventing spears or nets.





As omnivours we could eat plants and nuts to bugs and grubs, robbing nests and eating the young/eggs. We could suck the fatty marrow from the bones of carcasses left behind because we could use our hands to break the bones against rocks. The hand and hand coordination was what kept humans alive and fed.
Reply:Homo ergaster/ Homo erectus


Homo ergaster has been accredited as the first species to spread out of Africa into Europe, the Soviet Union, Asia, and India. Ergaster are human-like with a cranial capacity of 1,000 cc. Dating to about 1.6 million years ago, ergaster existed until 100,000 years ago. During this time, ergaster is accredited with creating more technologically advanced tools. These advances gave rise to a new tradition of tool making referred to as the Acheulian tradition. Specialized tools like hand axes, scrapers, borers and cleavers were fashioned and added to the hominid tool kit. Tailored clothing also became widely used among ergaster along with shelters. Perhaps the most important advancement was the use of fire. At Zhoukoudian, a site near Beijing, China burned bones were uncovered. These faunal remains dated to around 500,000 years ago. Also during this time from 500,000 to 600,000 years ago, ergaster began hunting big game like elephants. By 300,000 years ago shelters emerge. At the Terra Amata site off the coast of France, sediment depressions were discovered. Within this shelter, a central fire hearth was present. Artifacts found like flint and stone tools lead archaeologists to believe that specialized areas for tool making were created. At this site, a wolf and lion skull was left in the doorway, possibly proving the existence of some type of religious/spiritual belief system.



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