Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 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 have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...

Stone tools discovered on Crete and other Greek islands suggest that ancient humans deliberately crossed open seas more than ...

Evidence uncovered in a field in Suffolk, England indicates that ancient humans intentionally harnessed fire more than ...

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

Recent archaeological findings have unveiled a remarkable aspect of Neanderthal life, shedding new light on their technological prowess. A study published in ...

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

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...

In 2023, archaeologists announced the discovery of arrowheads in a grotto in southern France dated to 54,000 years ago, and ...

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