Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Curator of Palaeolithic Collections at the Briish Musuem, Professor Nick Ashton, explains why the discovery is so exciting.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Based on a pile of archaeological evidence, researchers think that Neanderthals were deliberately lighting fires as a site in ...

The earliest known evidence of human fire-making has been discovered in the UK dating back over 400,000, in a new groundbreaking discovery. Fire-cracked flint, hand axes and heated sediments have been ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it? Stream ...

LONDON (AP) — Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering evidence that deliberate fire-setting took place in what is ...

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 ...

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