使用它或失去它:基于模型的评估,欧洲尼安德特人依赖野火来创造他们的野火的假设
Andreu Arinyo I Prats1,2,3, Dennis Sandgathe2, Felix Riede1
1Department of Archaeology and Heritage, Aarhus University, Højbjerg, Moesgård Allé 20, Central Denmark Region, 8270, Denmark.
Open research Europe
|January 9, 2026
概括
尼安德特人可能依赖于野火,因为他们的文化失去了制火技巧. 建模表明,技能损失是可能的,特别是不经常使用,支持尼安德特人烟火技术的野火假说.
科学领域:
- 古人类学古人类学.
- 考古学的考古学
- 计算建模 计算建模
背景情况:
- 关于尼安德特人烟火技术能力和火的使用存在争议.
- 有证据表明尼安德特人使用火,但在寒冷时期,火的使用减少了.
- "野火假说"提出一些尼安德特人依赖于自然火灾,因为他们无法随意制造火.
研究的目的:
- 通过正式建模来评估野火假设的可信性.
- 调查尼安德特人失去制火技能的机制和概率.
- 评估文化丧失在尼安德特人技术能力中的作用.
主要方法:
- 开发了EMBERS模型来计算技能损失的概率.
- 整合了四种机制:使用的变化,使用之间的时间,记忆衰退和专家号码.
- 对估计的尼安德特人气候,记忆力和人口状况分析了模型输出.
主要成果:
- 在大多数模型参数中,失去制火技能比保留它们更有可能.
- 人口统计学 (专家人数) 是技能丧失的最不重要的因素.
- 记忆衰退和使用间隔比人口统计学更为关键,使用的变化是最强的驱动因素.
结论:
- 建模支持一些欧洲尼安德特人群的野火假设的可信性.
- 文化丧失是人类技术进化中需要考虑的重要因素.
- 尼安德特人可能依赖野火,特别是在寒冷的气候时期.
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