Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

The earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making by humans was discovered at 400,000-year-old site in Barnham, England, ...

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

Archaeologists found flint, iron pyrite to strike it and sediments where a fire was probably built several times at an ...

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...

Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering ...

Evidence from a site in southeast England suggests early humans were purposefully and repeatedly igniting blazes roughly ...

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 ...

A patch of scorched earth in eastern England is forcing scientists to rethink one of the most important turning points in ...

Discovery in Suffolk dates back 400,000 years, pushing timeline for controlled fire-making back by at least 360,000 years - ...

British scientists have discovered evidence of deliberate fire-making in eastern England around 400,000 years ago. This finding suggests humans mastered fire 350,000 years earlier than previously ...

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