[Ice Age] TL0 Gadgeteers and Civilization-Building

[fredtheobviouspseudonym]

Originally Posted by whswhs

. . .Anyway, in addition to the things Fred mentions, there is fire, a profoundly important technology. There are all sorts of things you can do with it that still count as TL0: making ceramics, smoking meat for storage, burning off woodland and raking the ashes onto a central patch to manufacture high-fertility soil.

Key element -- remember that originally the human species was in the middle of the food chain -- our ancestors were basically snacks for cats. Fire changes this -- the Lion King doesn't like being burned and keeps his distance. [Actually the Lion Queen -- males don't hunt.] So build a fire, stay by it at night == and you will live longer in the Paleolithic.