Tag Archives: firestarter
19th-century tinder-cord fire striker
Fire striker, Spain, 3rd century BC
Modern fire strikers
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.