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Our ancestors used fire to cook their food, heat their homes, give light to the darkness, and keep the scary things away at night. It was tended and fed – like the other precious things of life – the children and the gods. Today, we still use fire for all the same purposes. Today, that fire most often runs through copper wires. Though no longer the open fire of the past, it continues to feed us, light us and keep our fears at bay. Humans and fire – still we live and travel together on a shared path. (Steve Watts) The Hand Drill Friction Fire Woods Back to the Pleistocene! A Note On Eating Alder Catkins Construction and Efficacy of Quartz Crystal-Tipped Hand Drills Making a Horsetail Pan Flute Exploring the Horizons of Mycophagy (Part 1) Usefulness of Polypores In Primitive Firemaking Stropharia ambigua: One of My Favorite Fungi for the Table Melting Pitch in Pacific NW Shells The Bow Drill Eucalyptus Seed Buttons Hafting a Stone Blade the Old-Fashioned Way Random Paleolithic Ponderings A Suggested Human Technology Timeline Boiling With Hot Stones Processing Yucca Leaves for Cordage How Not To Coal-Burn a Wooden Container Smoothing With Sand, Even-ing With Equisetum Sculpting Soft Stone Percussion Firestarting Some Uses of Fire Making a Stone Age Sling