New findings suggest humans mastered fire far earlier than believed, transforming diets, social life, and survival in ancient ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers found evidence that suggests Neanderthals could make fire 400,000 years ago at an archaeological site near Suffolk 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 ...

The Curator of Palaeolithic Collections at the Briish Musuem, Professor Nick Ashton, explains why the discovery is so exciting. The earliest known evidence of fire-making by humans has been discovered ...

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 ...

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 ...