The cumulative nature of archaeological layers can also ... enabled the authors to establish a relative chronology of various hearths (Fig. 1). To go beyond relative chronology and measure the ...

For a study published in the journal Nature, an interdisciplinary team of researchers found that a series of six Neanderthal hearths at El Salt, a Paleolithic site in Spain, were formed over at ...

Scholars generally agree that fire was crucial to human survival during the most recent Ice Age—yet in Europe, there is surprisingly little evidence of hearths from its coldest years ...

A team of researchers discovered six Neanderthal hearths at a Paleolithic site in Spain called El Salt. The hearths were ...

The researchers think the clusters of burnt artefacts, which date to between 790,000 and 690,000 years ago, indicate the sites of ancient camp fires, or hearths, made by either Homo erectus or Homo ...

The smaller mammoth houses feature more definite cooking hearths, and they contain the remains of reindeer, horse and fox, which suggests the people in them were living on whatever they could find ...

Their analysis of three hearths at a prehistoric site in Ukraine shows that people of the last Ice Age built different types of hearths and used mainly wood, but possibly also bones and fat ...

Neanderthals may have used specialized hearths to make tar around 65,000 years ago, a new study finds. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...