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Whether for cooking, heating, as a light source or for making tools -- it is assumed that fire was essential for the survival of people in the Ice Age. However, it is puzzling that hardly any ...

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Researchers in Vienna found three fireplaces from the coldest period of the Ice Age, also the most mysterious.

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Ice age ancestors used sophisticated fireplaces by creating different hearths to light fires for various purposes.