Let There Be Light!
Let There Be Light! - Photo by Larry Foulk, Jr. January 4, 2022 LET THERE BE LIGHT! In the vicinity of nearly two million years ago, hominin creatures - perhaps, "predawn" ancestors of Homo sapiens sapiens - came into a more astute awareness of fire and began to develop crude means of manipulating it. Around the same time, Homo habilis and Homo erectus demonstrate an ability to craft tools from stone. A changing diet vis-a-vis cooking with fire combined with the use of new technologies like the hand-axe signified a remarkable advancement in the quality of life for these hominin creatures. (See Lesson 2 below for the link to Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History website titled "What Does It Mean To Be Human?" for details.) How do you think hominids came to control fire? What inspired them to craft tools from objects like stone? Let the thinking begin! "History," in a literal sense, is a study of the recorded or written past. Fossils and ...
