How did Neanderthals use fire??

Question

Neanderthal time period

Answer 1

I don't think there is compelling evidence that they used fire but they were pretty intelligent and it seems likely that they did use it at times.  Fire is useful in making food a bit more easily digested and for making tools.   Obviously it is also useful in heating.  The Neanderthal time period (roughly 300,000 to 30,000 years ago) overlaps with Homo sapiens (200,000 y.o to present) and certainly humans used fires in "Neanderthal time period."

Answer 2

Neandertals lived in Europe at the height of the last glaciation.  Fire would have been a necessity for survival.  Fire would have been used to heat their dwellings, cook their food, perhaps in the fabrication of tools (like baskets, etc.--those tools would not be likely to survive to be found by us.), and perhaps to hunt.

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Answer 3

To keep warm, maybe to cook, but it was also used a weapon and the biggest thing it was used for was to keep predators away.

Answer 4

Warmth, cooking food, safety from animals, same as we use it today during a camping trip. If you are asking how they made it the first time, probably from a lightning strike, then one of the group was given the sole task of making sure the fire stayed lit.

Answer 5

It's hard to say, non of us we around then.

Answer 6

to light up when having a f*g

Answer 7

what makes you think they did?

Answer 8

Not sure what you mean by how... Do you mean what did they use it to do ie. cook meat or keep warm ? or do you mean, how did they start the fires ?

Answer 9

I don't know if neanderthals did use fire. I think that the regular use of fire only occurred after cro-magnon man appeared.

Answer 10

very carefully

Answer 11

They used fire for

1. Cooking meat

Which would have extended life expectancy because of the reduced bacteria and a healthier diet with more protein.

2. Keep warm.

Again which would have extended life expectancy

3. For socializing.

Gathering around fire (just like humans do when camping).

They would have created fire by rubbing two objects together. Earlier Hominins would have obtained fire from electrical storms (i.e. lightening would have created fire).

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Answer 12

Neanderthal man was very intelligent, and in reading all of the answers before mine, I see no one has mentioned, using  ashes from the fires to draw on the cave walls in France. They drew magnificent scenery of hunts, and the scenes are of course, still preserved and a lot of the caves containing the artwork are not available for the public to view because Paleontologists and Historians do not want the artwork destroyed. From extensive reading, Neanderthals joined up with another branch of man before their own demise.