The controlled use of fire is one of the reasons our species was able to survive and spread around the world. But the newly unearthed evidence of the earliest fire-making shows that we were not the ...

A groundbreaking discovery in Barnham, UK, has revealed the earliest evidence of humans using tools to create fire, dating back over 400,000 years. Published in Nature, this study sheds new light on a ...

A team of UK researchers led by the British Museum say they have uncovered evidence that humans made fire around 400,000 years ago, pointing to fire-making tools and materials found in a field in ...

A research team at the British Museum, led by Nick Ashton and Rob Davis, reports evidence that ancient humans could make and manage fire about 400,000 years ago. The findings, published in Nature, ...

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