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Fire starting using a bow drill

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Living in the Stone Age
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Manse Ahmad demonstrates fire starting using friction and pressure

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Manse Ahmad talks about the importance of fire and talks about the how ingenious early humans were in creating fire, something that is so easy for us to do today.
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Series
Living in the Stone Age
People
Manse Ahmad
Keywords
Fire lighting
stone age
primitive techniques
Department: Ashmolean Museum
Date Added: 13/10/2015
Duration: 00:06:37

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