Is there any history of great fires set by ancient man on the cusp of its discovery?

by christhemost

Watching a show on NatGeo about ancient man discovering fire and thinking surely they had to learn about containing it somehow. Is there any way to know if some countryside was turned to ash because of some careless caveman?

Searocksandtrees

Hi, while it's possible that you'll get an answer here, for questions on early man, it would be worth x-posting to /r/AskAnthropology. While there are some anthropologists here, there are more there, and with greater focus on earlier time periods.