Fire making

Typical contents of a tinder box. From left to right: flint, fire striker, char cloth and piece of mushroom.

Fire making, fire lighting or fire craft is the process of artificially starting a fire. It requires completing the fire triangle, usually by heating tinder above its autoignition temperature.

Fire is an essential tool for human survival and the use of fire was important in early human cultural history since the Lower Paleolithic.[1][2] Today, it is a key component of Scouting and bushcraft.

  1. ^ Stiner, Mary C.; Gopher, Avi; Barkai, Ran (2011). "Hearth-side socioeconomics, hunting and paleoecology during the late Lower Paleolithic at Qesem Cave, Israel". Journal of Human Evolution. 60 (2): 213–33. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2010.10.006. PMID 21146194.
  2. ^ Bradt, Steve (June 2009). "Invention of cooking drove evolution of the human species, new book argues | Harvard Gazette". News.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 2017-06-27. Retrieved 2017-06-17.