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

At the Paleolithic site of Medzhibozh in Ukraine, archaeologists identified ivory fragments shaped into tools nearly 400,000 ...

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

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

Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery ...

The taming of fire is credited with sparking humanity's evolutionary journey towards our modern levels of intelligence. Fire ...

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

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

New research shows early humans relied on many plant foods. They ground seeds, cooked roots, and used simple tools long ...

Archaeologists say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.

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

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 ...