Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

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

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

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

“The discovery at the Palaeolithic site in Barnham evidences the creation and control of fire, which carries huge ...

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

A team of scientists led by the British Museum have unearthed the earliest known evidence of fire making, dating back over ...

Scientists revealed Wednesday that they have uncovered evidence in the U.K. of humans intentionally making fire 400,000 years ...

An excavation in Suffolk, UK, has uncovered pyrite and flint that appear to have been used by ancient humans to light fires ...

Humans likely harvested their first flames from wildfire. When they learned to make it themselves, it changed everything.

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

The first Denisovan skull, an ancient hunter’s toolkit and a Roman man’s brain that has turned to glass: here are our picks ...