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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 Preferred Friction Fire Woods Back to the Pleistocene! Making a Horsetail Pan Flute Quartz Crystal-Tipped Hand Drill Processing Yucca Fibers Mycophagy Usefulness of Fungi In Firemaking One of My Favorite Fungi for the Table Melting Pitch in Shells The Bow Drill A Suggested Human Technology Timeline Making a Stone Age Sling Random Paleolithic Ponderings A Eucalyptus Seed Button Quickie Boiling With Hot Stones Hafting a Stone Blade the Old-Fashioned Way How Not To Coal-Burn a Wooden Container Smoothing With Sand, Even-ing With Equisetum