Use it or lose it: A model-based assessment of the hypothesis that European Neanderthals relied on wildfires to create their campfires
Our modeling demonstrates the feasibility of the controversial hypothesis that some European Neanderthal groups were unable to create fire at will and instead relied on wildfire to start their campfires.
Authors
- Andreu Arinyo-i-Prats (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8502-6725)
- Mark Collard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2725-4989)
- Dennis Sandgathe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0998-7345)
- Felix Riede (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4879-7157)
Institutions
- Simon Fraser University (CA)
- Moesgaard Museum (DK)
- Central Denmark Region (DK)
- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Open Research Europe
- Published
- 2025-11-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.20477.2
- Primary Topic
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00