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Lighting a fire with a fire striker and flint kit
Fire lighting with a fire striker and flint is a process that, when carried out with the right tools, turns out to be quite quick and effective.
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Fire Striker, Spain, 16th Century AD
History of the fire striker
As early as the Upper Palaeolithic, some 14,000 years ago, it seems that man was able to make fire by striking stones together: at the sites of Laussel (France) and Trou-de-Charleux (Belgium), nodules of pyrite with clear traces of percussion have been found.
