Sentence examples for controlled fire from inspiring English sources

"Good sustained, controlled fire," Colonel Bristol said after watching the maneuvers from a rocky hilltop.

Though the assumption had long been that humans controlled fire before they began using it for cooking, Warneken and Rosati suggest that cooking may have given early humans a reason to control fire.

Before hominins controlled fire and either built sturdy shelters on the ground or effectively defended caves and rock shelters, they may have constructed platforms in trees for daily activities as well as night lodging.

Digs show that both modern humans and Neanderthals controlled fire in a way that almost certainly means they could cook, and did so at least 200,000 years ago.

An experimental design was assessed using five treatments: (1) chopping of the ground vegetation, (2) chopping followed by soil scarification in one or (3) in two directions, (4) controlled fire, (5) control and two logging slash treatments: (1) presence or (2) absence of slash cover before the soil and ground vegetation treatments.

"Although numerous rounds were fired, the officers utilized controlled fire.

This has created fires incomprehensible to the Indians, whose ancient culture depends on agriculture by means of controlled fires.

Shaded areas are peak-normalized histograms of spontaneous firing rates (black) and successfully controlled firing rates (blue) across units.

I sometimes add that the Village was where humans learned to control fire.

The first human beings to control fire gradually learned its many uses.

So being able to control fire was key to the evolution of Homo sapiens; cooking, indeed, made us human.