The ability to make fire on demand has long been seen as a turning point in our evolutionary story. It unlocked benefits like ...
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400,000-year-old find rewrites when humans mastered fire
A patch of scorched earth in eastern England is forcing scientists to rethink one of the most important turning points in human evolution. New evidence that early humans were deliberately making fire ...
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Scientists discover the earliest evidence of human fire-making dating back 400,000 years
A research team at the British Museum, led by Nick Ashton and Rob Davis, reports evidence that ancient humans could make and ...
Researchers have discovered the earliest known instance of human-created fire, which took place in the east of England ...
Fragments of iron pyrite, a rock that can be used with flint to make sparks, were found by a 400,000-year-old hearth in eastern Britain. (Jordan Mansfield | Courtesy Pathways to Ancient Britain ...
(CNN) — A field in eastern England has revealed evidence of the earliest known instance of humans creating and controlling fire, a significant find that archaeologists say illuminates a dramatic ...
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Humans may have made fire 350,000 years earlier than we thought
Archaeologists working in eastern England say they have uncovered the earliest known evidence of humans deliberately making ...
It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...
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