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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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 ...
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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 ...
Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?
Four hundred thousand years ago, near a water hole on grasslands bordering a forest in what is now southern England, a group of Neandertals struck chunks of iron pyrite against flint to create sparks, ...
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 ...
Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?
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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