Editing Java Man (section)

=== Control of fire ===
The [[control of fire by early humans|control of fire by ''Homo erectus'']] is generally accepted by archaeologists to have begun some 400,000 years ago,<ref name="James" /> with claims regarding earlier evidence finding increasing scientific support.<ref>{{cite web|title=Evidence That Human Ancestors Used Fire One Million Years Ago |url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120402162548.htm |access-date=2013-10-27 |last=Luke |first=Kim |quote=An international team led by the University of Toronto and Hebrew University has identified the earliest known evidence of the use of fire by human ancestors. Microscopic traces of wood ash, alongside animal bones and stone tools, were found in a layer dated to one million years ago}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Miller |first=Kenneth |date=16 December 2013 |title=Archaeologists Find Earliest Evidence of Humans Cooking With Fire |work=Discover |url=http://discovermagazine.com/2013/may/09-archaeologists-find-earliest-evidence-of-humans-cooking-with-fire#.UpHIM2tYCSN}}</ref> Burned wood has been found in layers that carried the Java Man fossils in [[Trinil]], dating to around from 500,000 to 830,000 BP. However, because Central Java is a volcanic region, the charring may have resulted from natural fires, and there is no conclusive proof that ''Homo erectus'' in Java controlled fire.<ref name="James">{{cite journal |last=James |first=Steven R. |date=February 1989 |title=Hominid Use of Fire in the Lower and Middle Pleistocene: A Review of the Evidence |journal=Current Anthropology |volume=30 |issue=1 |pages=1–26 |url=http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/archaeology/Publications/Hearths/Hominid%20Use%20of%20Fire%20in%20the%20Lower%20and%20Middle%20Pleistocene.pdf |doi=10.1086/203705 |s2cid=146473957 |access-date=2012-04-04 |archive-date=2015-12-12  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151212084645/http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/archaeology/Publications/Hearths/Hominid%20Use%20of%20Fire%20in%20the%20Lower%20and%20Middle%20Pleistocene.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> It has been proposed that frequent natural fires may have allowed Java Man "opportunistic use [... that] did not create an archeologically visible pattern".<ref>{{cite book |last=Alsberg |first=Paul |title=In Quest of Man: A Biological Approach to the Problem of Man's Place in Nature |date=2013 |publisher=Elsevier |isbn=9781483151557 |page=149}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Roebroeksa |first1=Wil |last2=Villa |first2=Paola |title=On the earliest evidence for habitual use of fire in Europe |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America|volume=108|issue=13 |pages=5209–14 |pmc=3069174|year=2011|pmid=21402905 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1018116108 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2011PNAS..108.5209R}}</ref>