SSC MTS EXAM

Detailed explanation-1: -Original uses of fire With the achievement of agriculture in Neolithic times in the Middle East about 7000 bce, there came a new urgency to clear brush and trees. The first agriculturists made use of fire to clear fields and to produce ash to serve as fertilizer.

Detailed explanation-2: -Early Evidence The controlled use of fire was likely an invention of our ancestor Homo erectus during the Early Stone Age (or Lower Paleolithic).