In Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa, burned bones were found in a dirt layer associated with Homo erectus. The inhabitants ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ran Barkai holds a segment of an ancient elephant at the La Polledrara site in Italy. (photo credit: TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY) Over ...

Researchers have now discovered the earliest known instance of human-made fire, rewriting the timeline of when humans first created fire. The new discovery, in the village of Barnham, pushes the ...

A team of researchers led by the British Museum has unearthed the oldest known evidence of fire-making, dating back more than 400,000 years, in a field in Suffolk. The discovery shows humans were ...

Early humans may have created fire 400,000 years ago, according to evidence unearthed at an archaeological site in England. Although there is evidence that early humans used natural fire in Africa as ...

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 ...

Lorraine Boissoneault | Author, Body Weather: Notes on Chronic Illness in the Anthropocene The McDougall Creek wildfire burns in the hills of British Columbia, Canada, on August 17, 2023. Evacuation ...

Hominids have been using fire for at least a million years — but scientists have found that human fire-wielding skills during our planet’s last great Ice Age became so advanced that they would have ...

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 now eastern ...