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Over 400,000-year-old evidence of fire-making unearthed — thousands of years earlier than once thought
Learn more about the creation of fire, and how new artifacts show that fire was used tens of thousands of years earlier than ...
Researchers have discovered the earliest known instance of human-created fire, which took place in the east of England 400,000 years ago. The new discovery, in the village of Barnham, pushes the ...
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 – ...
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.
Scientists revealed Wednesday that they have uncovered evidence in the U.K. of humans intentionally making fire 400,000 years ...
Archaeologists say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.
Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...
The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...
A team of scientists led by the British Museum have unearthed the earliest known evidence of fire making, dating back over 400,000 years, in a field in Suffolk.
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