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 ...
Evidence of fire-making, dating back around 400,000 years, has been discovered in a disused clay pit in Barnham, Suffolk.
The material, found at at disused clay pit in Suffolk, was described by experts as the most exciting find of their careers.
The taming of fire is credited with sparking humanity's evolutionary journey towards our modern levels of intelligence.
Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...
A team of scientists led by the British Museum have unearthed the earliest known evidence of fire making, dating back over ...
Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...
The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...
The find, at a disused clay pit in Suffolk, suggests humans were making fire 350,000 years earlier than previously known. | ...
Humans likely harvested their first flames from wildfire. When they learned to make it themselves, it changed everything.
From bonobos and rats to tickling robots, research is finally cracking the secrets of why we’re ticklish, and what that reveals about our brains ...