The earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making by humans was discovered at 400,000-year-old site in Barnham, England, ...

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Earliest evidence of human fire-making found at 400,000-year-old Suffolk site. Researchers led by the British Museum have uncovered what they believe is the earliest known evidence of humans making ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 years ago LONDON -- Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have ...

Is it the case that control of fire by Neanderthals was mastered 350,000 years before the previously believed date? Evidence ...

It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...

Evidence from a site in southeast England suggests early humans were purposefully and repeatedly igniting blazes roughly ...

Four hundred thousand years ago, near a water hole on grasslands bordering a forest in what is now southern England, a group of Neandertals struck chunks of iron pyrite against flint to create sparks, ...

A fire pit with a flame and wood planks on a stone patio with green bushes in the background - Deb Perry/Getty Images Fire pits are a popular backyard focal point, and there are plenty of reasons ...

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 ...