http://moocs.southampton.ac.uk/shipwrecks/2015/06/20/questions-on-week-4/ Shipwrecks and Submerged Worlds: Maritime Archaeology Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:17:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.14 http://moocs.southampton.ac.uk/shipwrecks/2015/06/20/questions-on-week-4/#comment-1791 Sat, 20 Jun 2015 09:37:32 +0000 http://moocs.southampton.ac.uk/shipwrecks/?p=731#comment-1791 They weren’t moving fire around on logboats in Danish waters but actually using fire for, possibly, warmth, cooking, or even “burning the water” in order to attract fish. We do not recognise how fire was used enough in prehistory. For example the nearly naked inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego used the warmth of fires as a substitute for clothing in many instances.

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