Using Fire as a Tool Aided With Pest Control

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In armenia, there's definitely a celebration as is usually marked with what's calld a horovats. I'm interested in where potential sources of raw stone might have come from to start tracing how people were moving across the landscape. Sometimes it means spending a month in an armenian mountain village that's literally the end of the road and has the most spectacular night skies you can imagine. And i mean, so for neanderthal, you and i are, you know, of a goodage. Oh, god, oh, we're fossils. Can you imagine? They're like, what, yara her what is it?

Grab your fire extinguisher and hang on to your eyebrows, we’re building FIRES today. Now, this is pyrotechnology in the anthropological sense; the kind covered in hair metal concert venue liability insurance will have to wait for another day, no no, these are the kind your ancestors made. Get ready for sharp rocks, hairy jello, sooty caves, glowing coals, iron sparks, burnt feet, wolf skulls, fluffy fungus, molten metal, ember tending and more with Yale anthropologist and pyrotechnologist, Dr. Ellery Frahm.

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