The First Fire: 2.45 Million Years in Prehistory

2.45 Million years ago, the Yellow River did not exist and the Qinling Mountains did not grow taller. Without fire, winter in the north is a death sentence. Ba, a hunter with scarred cheekbones, led a 10-man reconnaissance team chasing a ray of sky fire into the territory of the giant beast. What stood in front of them was the short-snouted hyena, the largest bone-crushing machine in the history of Earth's creatures, and a hyena king who would never admit defeat. Stone flakes, wooden spears, javelins, every step of survival is at the cost of life. Fierce beasts from the wild, loess sandstorms, and ice age reincarnations, every evolution is made possible by experience, collaboration, and the baptism of blood and life. No time travel, no cheats, no system, not even a complete language. From a purely aboriginal perspective, using real archaeological evidence chain deductions from 2.43 Million years ago, we can reproduce the full price from 0 to 1 behind the ancient civilization, the first fire of mankind. From the ancient Hanzhong Lake, which is dying in its southern homeland, to the ancient Sanmen Lake, which is submerged in Guanzhong, Yuncheng, Linfen, and Lingbao basins, they go north in late spring and return south in late autumn, chased by the freezing cold line like migratory birds. 100,000 Years, thousands of generations. From the first cluster of fire, to the first time humans overwintered in the north; from being crushed by ferocious beasts, to humans occupying beast dens; from the civilized spread of the Five Elements survival technology, to the dark back stabs of alien races; from the three-edged sharp weapons taking shape in their hands, the coming of the Ice Age, to people migrating to six distant homes again. They left no names, only in the hands of archaeologists, they left earth-shattering bones and tools, as well as the most conclusive and profound evidence of where we came from. This book is a tribute to those pioneers who created miracles with their mortal bodies and brought the first glimmer of light to mankind.