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Starting and maintaining a fire |
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| All Natural | video tutorial on starting a fire with a bow-drill |
| The Art of Manliness | 9 ways to start a fire without matches |
| Fire Making | No. 5 of Richard Graves’ free bushcraft books |
| Natural Bushcraft | 20 articles / videos on fire starting in the wild |
| Pathfinder | lots of videos on different ways to make fire, including solar ignition |
| Paul Kirtley | detailed article about using a bow-drill |
| Practical Survivor | fire-starting articles, including hand-drill, bow-drill, flint & steel, magnesium block, fire piston and more |
| Primitive Ways | the miracle of fire-by-friction |
| Ravenlore | fire-starting info |
| Survival, Tracking & Awareness | fire and firemaking, with details on hand-drills and bow-drills |
| WikiHow | 70+ articles under the category ‘outdoor fire skills’ |
| Wikipedia | entry on firelighting |
| Wilderness Survival | article on firecraft, from basic principles to materials, building and lighting a fire |
| Wildwood Survival | list of fire-starting techniques |
| Youtube | how the Vikings made fire with flint and steel |
Open fire cooking |
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| Campfires Burning | recipes for open fire cooking |
| Eartheasy | campfire cooking – including building the fire and recipes |
| Guardian | tips for cooking over an open fire |
| Woodlands.co.uk | basic campfire cooking |
| YTravel | tips for cooking over an open fire |
Prehistoric use of fire |
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| BBC | early human fire skills revealed |
| Beyond Vegetarianism | when was fire first controlled by human beings |
| Current Anthropology (pdf) | Hominid use of Fire in the Middle & Lower Pleistocene: a Review of the Evidence |
| Science | fire and stone |
| Science | fire as an engineering tool of early modern humans |
| Science Now | quest for fire began earlier than thought |
| Wikipedia | entry for ‘control of fire by early humans’ |
Other |
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| Campfires Burning | list of campsites in the UK that allow open fires |
| Scouts | campfire safety |
