A new study suggests humans were deliberately starting and using fires more than 400,000 years ago.
The study, published in the journal Nature, is based on a years-long examination of a reddish patch of sediment excavated at ...
Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...
Scientists have uncovered the oldest-known evidence of deliberate fire-making by prehistoric humans in Suffolk, Britain – ...
According to the team, that pine pitch is the first major new clue in over a century. When the boat was built, Denmark itself ...
Fresh off her first solo state visit to Laos, Princess Aiko has become the face of a Japanese royal family facing ...
A team of researchers led by the British Museum has unearthed the oldest known evidence of fire-making, dating back more than ...
Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 ...
Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.
The human use of fire, attested by evidence from Africa, goes back around 1.6m years. But, hitherto, the oldest signs of ...
Archaeologists say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.
An excavation in Suffolk, UK, has uncovered pyrite and flint that appear to have been used by ancient humans to light fires ...
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