On weekends, there are many people who enjoy camping at a camping site with family and friends to forget about the harshness of urban life. When the twilight sun goes down, the campers all light up the firewood pile and start burning something. In all likelihood, they are pork belly. At this point, it would not be an exaggeration to say that it is camping to smoke as much as you want and go to eat grilled pork belly. If you lose the pleasure of sitting around a bonfire and enjoying a delicious glass of soju on a well-grilled pork belly, you may not need to go on an uncomfortable camping with a tent and a tolerable kitchen. And all this happiness is thanks to our brave ancestors who approached the fire that other animals feared so long ago.

Being able to freely handle fire at will is one of the most groundbreaking and successful innovations our ancestors have achieved.

You cannot imagine life without fire today. Foods that are difficult to digest or toxic ingredients can now be cooked and eaten while roasting. The types of food you can eat have been greatly expanded. Moreover, the food baked on the fire was good. A bonfire was able to withstand the cold and was safe from the threat of predators approaching the middle of the night. The fire brought an environment that improved the quality of life and was more favorable for survival.

You cannot imagine life without fire today. Foods that are difficult to digest or toxic ingredients can now be cooked and eaten while roasting. The types of food you can eat have been greatly expanded. Moreover, the food baked on the fire was good. A bonfire was able to withstand the cold and was safe from the threat of predators approaching the middle of the night. The fire brought an environment that improved the quality of life and was more favorable for survival.

In Kenya's Kubifora, it is reported that evidence of the use of fire has been reported 1.6 million years ago, but at this time, I do not think that fire was treated as a tool for convenience.

One of the oldest traces of fire ever discovered is the site of a bonfire 700,000 to 800,000 years ago found in Gesher Benot Yakov ruins in the Hula Valley in northern Israel. It is not a well-formed oven, but many pieces of wood were found around it. It is believed to have been used as firewood to make a fire. There were also circumstantial evidences suggesting that stone tools such as knives and knives were made and roasted nuts and fish in the vicinity of the fire pit where the bonfire was lit. It can be said that it shows that most of the activities necessary for daily life took place near the bonfire where the fire was burning.

Mankind, who gathered around the campfire every night and spent time together, would be able to strengthen social ties more and more by sharing each other's warmth and fellowship. The scenes gathering around a burning bonfire and interacting with each other became a very important turning point in human evolution.

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