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

The site where the earliest known human-made fire was discovered was the "perfect location" for early humans, a researcher ...

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Earliest evidence of human fire-making found at 400,000-year-old Suffolk site. Researchers led by the British Museum have ...

Researchers spent four years analyzing to rule out natural wildfires. Geochemical tests showed temperatures had exceeded 700 degrees Celsius.

Is it the case that control of fire by Neanderthals was mastered 350,000 years before the previously believed date? Evidence ...

Archaeologists say they have identified the earliest known evidence of humans making fire, dating to about 400,000 years ago.

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

A study shows Neanderthals made first fire in Britain 400,000 years ago, pushing back the timeline of controlled fire use by ...

New archaeological evidence from a site in Suffolk, England, indicates that early Neanderthals made fire around 400,000 years ago, pushing back the known timeline of human-controlled fire-making by ...

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 ...