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

Along the southwestern coast of Portugal, fossilized footprints preserved in ancient dunes provide a rare glimpse into ...

In Eastern Europe, archaeologists uncovered circular accumulations of mammoth bones dating back 44,000 years. Found at the ...

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

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

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

According to groundbreaking findings from England, Neanderthals were sparking their own fires 400,000 years ago — hundreds of thousands of years earlier than many anthropologists previously believed.

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 ...

The expression of symbolic behavior, such as drawing, dates back to Paleolithic societies. Alongside modern humans (Homo ...

Archaeological evidence makes a compelling case for Neanderthal-created fires 400,000 years ago in Suffolk, UK — plus, how ...

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 ...

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