Golucino, Andrea A.

June 22, 2019

STEM 2-D Fortitude Jerry H. G. Salvador SCI 1 Teacher
How did early people use fire, metals, and salt to develop technologies that
made them better adapted to their environment and for commerce?
Three of the human beings great innovations was the discovery of fire, metal
and salt. These discoveries enables us to create light and heat, cook and preserve
plants and animals, plant clear forests, make a few tools that were undeniably more
stronger than stones and sticks and prevent predator livestock. Since then and the
progression of human progress, the disclosure, advancement and utilization of flame,
metal and salt made the manner in which that individuals live and social orders have
naturally moulded.
The capacity to cook meat before eating it instead of eating raw would also be
the medical advantage caused by the presence of fire. This gastronomic consumption
of fire and salt not only permitted people to eat more delicious meals, but it also served
as an antiseptic that can kill an amount of unsafe bacteria found in raw food, such as
E. coli and salmonella. (Miller, Lauren 2018) In food, fire together with the salt also
permitted people to cook and keep the meats dry or preserved, which gave them a
way to save food when there was scarcity of food. Prior to the appearance of fire and
salt, the primate diet was constrained to for the most part plant parts made out of basic
sugars and starches, for example, seeds, blooms, and meaty organic products.
Portions of the plant, for example, stems, develop leaves, extended roots, and
tubers would have been out of reach as a nourishment source because of the
unpalatability of crude cellulose and starch. Cooking, nonetheless, made bland and
stringy nourishments palatable and incredibly expanded the assorted variety of
different sustenance accessible to early people. Poison containing sustenance
including seeds and comparative starch sources, for example, cyanogenic glycosides
found in linseed and cassava, were joined into their eating regimens as cooking
rendered them non-harmful. (Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia)
Like improving the way toward eating meat that had been gotten through the
demonstration of hunting, fire was an instrument for farming too. The advantages of
extensive fires were learned by humans. Large fires could contribute to enhancing
fertility of soil to plant and grow edible plants. They could also be used for clearing big
regions covered by bushes or trees. Large fires can also serve as a means of security,
stopping enemies from attacking by forming a barrier between two groups of
individuals. They were able to defend their selves from the terrain with fire, and were
also able to devise a completely new way of hunting.
The discovery of copper had a big effect on tool and weapons development, in
relation to the many advantages that fire offered early humans. Early humans who
used fire as an engineering instrument to alter their weaponry's efficiency was a
significant technological advance. (Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia) Their tools were
even made stronger and allowed early beings to change their hunting tactics and use
spears as thrusting rather than just throwing their weapons.
 Fire may also have played an anthropological function, establishing a
discrepancy in the social environment of early men among those capable of using fire
and those who have not. The gatherings of individuals who had the ability of utilizing
fire had an unmistakable favourable position over the individuals who didn't, and this
may have affected the union of specific gatherings, as the individuals who did not have
fire may have joined the individuals who did after observing the improvement in
personal satisfaction fire brought to the individuals who utilized it. In specific
gatherings, those men who had the option to make and control fire would almost
certainly be respected by the clear and significant aptitudes which they brought to the
group as the most powerful men inside the group, just like how men that were the most
talented hunters earned a place of prevalence inside their given group. Fire, at that
point, was a key segment to supporting the procedure of spoken language help.
Early man's capacity to make, and control fire was a milestone in the
advancement of the human species. Fire gave man vital devices to help survival,
improving personal satisfaction just as stretching the normal life expectancy. Beside
the prompt and substantial enhancements fire brought to the lives of early man, it
additionally was key in social improvement; it gave early gatherings another expertise
by which recognize individuals, and furthermore encouraged the creation and spread
of spoken language. “Considering all that fire added to the lives of the soonest people,
it might just be the most significant advancement ever of.” (Miller, Lauren 2018)

https://www.quora.com/What-were-the-uses-of-fire-to-early-humans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_of_fire_by_early_humans