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The Firekeepers of the Ice Age: Unearthing the Gravettian Flame

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The research, published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 1 , presents compelling micro-archaeological evidence that fire was not just a survival tool but a defining cultural trait of the Gravettian tradition. Additionally, the researchers found high concentrations of manganese oxides in the combustion features.

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Human Bio-Cultural Evolution

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As the anthropological definition of culture especially by scholars like E.B. They do fit well with the ways in which some researchers have long seen selection interacting with environments over the course of evolutionary time without reducing those processes to natural selection.