Stone Age Fire Maker with Hand Drill Miniature

A stylised Stone Age figure kneeling and leaning over a wooden hearth board on the round, textured base, spinning an upright drill stick between both palms to make fire by friction. A small bundle of tinder lies beside the board, and the figure wears fur clothing. The hand drill is one of the simplest ways to make fire without matches, still practised by some traditional peoples today. Direct evidence of how Stone Age people lit fires is rare, but wear marks on flint tools suggest that Neandert…

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