Researchers at Leiden University and Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands said that the first cultural revolution in human history took place about 400,000 years ago.
The researchers confirmed that the first revolution began when the human ancestors began to set fire at a rapid pace, according to what the website “EurekAlert” reported.
The scientists confirmed that “traces of the deliberate use of fire were found in many very ancient sites, where archaeological excavations were conducted, and the study indicated that the deliberate use of fire by humans is completely different from the perspective of evaluating the state of intellectual development from the occurrence of fires spontaneously.”
The spread of a particular cultural behavior such as the use of fire can be explained in several ways: “the movement of several places by an individual or group, or the migration of populations, or the transfer of behavioral genes”. In the absence of widespread environmental changes or genetic or fossil evidence of population movements during this period, scholars believe that the cultural distribution resulting from the movement of several places by an individual or group is the most reasonable explanation for the widespread use of fire.