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Hearths present sedimentary features, artifacts, and direct evidence for maintained and controlled fire in the past. The use of hearths reflects regular access to fire and its diverse benefits. Among these benefits are cooked food, protection from the cold and from predators, and fire’s transformative power regarding raw materials. Hearths may have also served as focal points of activity at Paleolithic campsites and triggered changes in social structures. As sedimentary features, combustion structures function as behavioral as well as paleoenvironmental archives. The papers in this special issue focus on the former aspect, how combustion feature can serve as transmitters of behavior, and with what tools we can explore them. We here briefly present an overview on the range of topics explored in these papers, which include ethnoarchaeological research on fire use among recent hunter-gatherer groups, spatial analysis of burnt lithics, actualistic experiments regarding fire function and fire use in tool production.

Fire as an Artifact—Advances in Paleolithic Combustion Structure Studies: Introduction to the Special Issue