Did Fire Spark Storytelling?
Category: SCIENCE
How many of us have wondered, to paraphrase Ursula Le Guin, why we huddle about the campfire?  A recent study poses an answer to this question by looking at what hunter-gatherers talk about as they sit around the fire at night.
By Michelle Scalise Sugiyama, ContributorAnthropology Department, University of Oregon, 2015-04-24