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What does FCR stand for?

Fire-Cracked Rock


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Samples in periodicals archive:
Byline: ANI Washington, Dec 29 (ANI): When wooly mammoths were becoming extinct, some 10,000 years ago, early man had to start cooking vegetables on fire-cracked rock piles.
Archaeologists have also found fire-cracked rock and midden -- dark, oily ground, with remains from cooking and food preparation that are often a first sign of human use and settlement.
Use of fire is indicated by charred bone and clusters of reddened and fire-cracked rocks," writes Prof Morwood in the journal Nature this week.
holds a fire-cracked rock found at a Sound Transit excavation site near the Duwamish River.
Alison Brooks, chairwoman of George Washington University's anthropology department who has no ties to the Israeli dig, says that until recently the oldest acknowledged hearths with fire-cracked rocks and deep accumulations of black ash and wood were no older than 40,000 years.
The midden, an 8-inch band of debris about 3 feet below ground, contained charcoal, bone ash, fire-cracked rock and small bone fragments, as well as flakes produced by making or sharpening stone tools, Shong said.
Indeed, while leading a tour in March, Hitzroth found a fire-cracked rock that a mole had kicked up out of its burrow - a rock most likely from a hearth where Native Americans rendered fish.
The stone tools, bones and fire-cracked rocks from a mastodon barbecue on an ancient riverbank may be the earliest evidence of human life in North America, Smithsonian Institution archaeologists believe.

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