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

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

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

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 ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 ...

"We think humans brought pyrite to the site with the intention of making fire. And this has huge implications, pushing back ...

East of England; evidence that was uncovered this week and suggests that early neanderthals might have made fire 350 thousand years earlier than we previously thought. Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes is ...

New findings suggest humans mastered fire far earlier than believed, transforming diets, social life, and survival in ancient ...

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

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

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