Many of the sediments analysed from Tel Dor (Israel) show structural alterations indicating that they were exposed to high temperatures. This observation is consistent with the abundant evidence for use of pyrotechnology from the earliest exposed…

The use of fire played an important role in the course of human evolution, and its control was advantageous to many aspects of survival strategies. And yet the origin of intentional use of fire is still a controversial issue; in fact, prior to the…

Six experimental fireplaces were constructed to investigate the ability of micromorphology to identify anthropogenic reworking of combustion features and to build a reference base of experimentally-derived conditions to calibrate micromorphological…