Experiments in Bone Burning
Most people, when building a fire, look for wood for their fuel source. However, wood was not available for some people in prehistory. Early arctic people of the Beringia area may have used bones as a primary fuel source. Looking at the environmental conditions of Alaska approximately 14,000 to 11,0...
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ftunivwiscon:oai:minds.wisconsin.edu:1793/6671 2023-05-15T15:02:36+02:00 Experiments in Bone Burning Glazewski, Megan Crass, Barbara Behm, Jeffrey 2006-06-30T15:28:46Z 509204 bytes application/pdf http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/6671 en_US eng University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Oshkosh Scholar, Volume 1, 2006 http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/6671 Bering Land Bridge Fire-making Bones Article 2006 ftunivwiscon 2022-04-13T19:19:43Z Most people, when building a fire, look for wood for their fuel source. However, wood was not available for some people in prehistory. Early arctic people of the Beringia area may have used bones as a primary fuel source. Looking at the environmental conditions of Alaska approximately 14,000 to 11,000 years ago, it could have been possible to burn bones as an alternate fuel source. Possible bone fires may have been performed at other locations around the globe, and these sites are compared to a site in central Alaska. Experiments were designed to test the feasibility of burning bones. The control for the experiment used bones that were not cooked in any way, while the variable test used boiled bones. The tests used bones from various hoofed mammals, dried grass, and pieces of lard. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Bering Land Bridge Alaska Beringia University of Wisconsin: Digital Collections Arctic |
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Most people, when building a fire, look for wood for their fuel source. However, wood was not available for some people in prehistory. Early arctic people of the Beringia area may have used bones as a primary fuel source. Looking at the environmental conditions of Alaska approximately 14,000 to 11,000 years ago, it could have been possible to burn bones as an alternate fuel source. Possible bone fires may have been performed at other locations around the globe, and these sites are compared to a site in central Alaska. Experiments were designed to test the feasibility of burning bones. The control for the experiment used bones that were not cooked in any way, while the variable test used boiled bones. The tests used bones from various hoofed mammals, dried grass, and pieces of lard. |
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