A cross-cultural survey of on-site fire use by recent hunter-gatherers: Implications for research on Palaeolithic pyrotechnology

All hunter-gatherer groups know how to create fire.

5 groups out of 93 did not know how to create fire independently.

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Descriptive Statistics	Not supported	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Ability to create fire	Dependent	Fire

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
McCauley, Brea	2020	The creation of fire may be limited to certain individuals within hunter-gatherer societies.	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
McCauley, Brea	2020	The ways in which fire was created and used differed amongst different hunter-gatherer societies.	Supported	1	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Scherjon, Fulco	2015	"Fire use is an integral prat of the hunter-gatherer niche, off-site as well as on-site"(314).	NA	0	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Scherjon, Fulco	2015	"Off-site fire use by hunter-gatherers and other people practicing traditional subsistence strategies is omnipresent, carried out by males, females, and children and by individuals and groups of all sizes"(311).	NA	0	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Scherjon, Fulco	2015	There is a discrepancy between the "historical visibility of hunter-gatherer burning practices as reconstructed through ethnohistorical accounts and the relative invisibility of such firing practices in nearly contemporaneous proxies, such as charcoal and pollen records"(314.	NA	0	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author