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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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.