Erin Allman-Updike

Thanks a lot, Prometheus.

Just kidding.

Sorry.

Deep cut.

I like it.

But as our hominin ancestors learned to use fire, first by controlling wildfires, then making fires from scratch, they were sure to suffer burns.

Just last year, a paper came out that pushed back the estimate of fire making to like actually originating fire to 400,000 years.

Wow.

So researchers found compelling evidence of fire making in eastern England in Neanderthal sites.

And before this, the earliest evidence was like 50,000 years, which didn't mean that people thought it wasn't older.

But like this was like that was the only evidence they had.

Yeah.

Okay.

Wow.

But it's likely that our hominin relatives had been controlling fire for much longer than that, perhaps as far back as like one and a half million years.

They would have had to in order to migrate to regions with colder climates in the first place.

Okay.

All this is to say, this is my long winded way of saying ever since man discovered fire that he's had to deal with burns, right?

We've been dealing with burns for hundreds of thousands of years in the quest to harness fire.

And throughout all that time, humans have attempted to treat the burns that they experienced.