Archaeologists have identified what appears to be the earliest clear evidence that ancient humans were not just tending flames but deliberately making fire, pushing a pivotal technological ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Excavation of 400,000 year old pond sediments at Barnham, Suffolk. (CREDIT: Jordan Mansfield) A research team at the British ...

Neanderthals 400,000 years ago were striking flints to make fires, researchers have found. Neanderthals 400,000 years ago were striking flints to make fires, researchers have found. An artist’s ...

The ability to make fire on demand has long been seen as a turning point in our evolutionary story. It unlocked benefits like cooking food, staying warm, and protection from predators. For thousands ...

Archaeologists working in eastern England say they have uncovered the earliest known evidence of humans deliberately making fire, pushing the origin of this technology back to roughly 400,000 years ...

A team of researchers led by the British Museum has unearthed the oldest known evidence of fire-making, dating back more than 400,000 years, in a field in Suffolk. The discovery shows humans were ...

Fragments of iron pyrite, a rock that can be used with flint to make sparks, were found by a 400,000-year-old hearth in eastern Britain. (Jordan Mansfield | Courtesy Pathways to Ancient Britain ...

The controlled use of fire was a key part of the development of human technology with a range of uses that greatly expanded human cultural evolution. Although evidence at a number of archaeological ...

A research team at the British Museum, led by Nick Ashton and Rob Davis, reports evidence that ancient humans could make and manage fire about 400,000 years ago. The findings, published in Nature, ...