Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery ...

Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of the earliest fire-making, dating back 400,000 years, in Suffolk, England. The ...

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 ...

New research led by the British Museum has found evidence of the world’s oldest human fire-making activity in Barnham, ...

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

The discovery site at East Farm, Barnham, England lies hidden within a disused clay pit tucked away in the wooded landscape between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds. Professor Nick Ashton from the British ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

Sites in Africa suggest humans used natural fire over a million years ago, but the discovery at the Palaeolithic site in Barnham evidences the creation and control of fire, which carries huge ...

Humans were living in rainforests roughly 150,000 years ago, some 80,000 years earlier than was previously thought—and may have been an important center for early human evolution. This is the ...

A groundbreaking new study reveals that ancient human groups inhabited the Mongolian Gobi Desert when it was a lush landscape of lakes and wetlands. The findings, published in PLOS One, push back the ...

Archaeological research once again dispells the widespread belief that our Paleolithic ancestors were primarily meat-eaters, ...

Several SDSU students are embarking on a week-long research expedition to the Channel Islands with the goal of potentially rewriting human history through underwater archaeological discoveries.