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A team of researchers led by the British Museum has unearthed the oldest known evidence of fire-making, dating back more than ...

Researchers say the discovery sheds new light on early Neanderthal behavior and suggests fire making played a major role in ...

Researchers have discovered the earliest known instance of human-created fire, which took place in the east of England 400,000 years ago. The new discovery, in the village of Barnham, pushes the ...

Archaeologists say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.

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Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 ...

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Discovery of iron pyrite at a site in England pushes back the date of human fire creation by 350,000 years Early humans may ...

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.

The human use of fire, attested by evidence from Africa, goes back around 1.6m years. But, hitherto, the oldest signs of ...

Archaeological evidence makes a compelling case for Neanderthal-created fires 400,000 years ago in Suffolk, UK — plus, how ...