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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 |