NICK ASHTON: We think humans brought pyrite to the site with the intention of making fire. ROTT: Which would make the site ...
Archaeologists say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.
The human use of fire, attested by evidence from Africa, goes back around 1.6m years. But, hitherto, the oldest signs of ...
Pyrite found at a 400,000-year-old site in Barnham, England suggests that early humans were making fire long before experts ...
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Out of Eden Walk: The origin story of the human species is still being written
National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...
Discovery of iron pyrite at a site in England pushes back the date of human fire creation by 350,000 years Early humans may ...
An excavation in Suffolk, UK, has uncovered pyrite and flint that appear to have been used by ancient humans to light fires ...
The discovery site at East Farm, Barnham, England lies hidden within a disused clay pit tucked away in the wooded landscape between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds. Professor Nick Ashton from the British ...
A study reveals a 6,000-year-old population in Colombia that left no identifiable descendants, raising new questions about ...
Ancient wolf remains, dating back thousands of years, have been discovered by scientists on the small, isolated Swedish island in the Baltic Sea – and they can even tell us a bit about early humans.
The fossils themselves are modest in appearance. A juvenile lower jaw packed with baby and emerging adult teeth, several isolated premolars and molars, fragments of adult mandibles, and a juvenile hip ...
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