The main sources of ignition before humans appeared were lightning strikes. Our evidence of fire in the fossil record (in deep time, as we often refer to the long geological stretch of time before ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Excavation of 400,000 year old pond sediments at Barnham, Suffolk. (CREDIT: Jordan Mansfield) A research team at the British ...

The oldest accepted signs of people making fire on demand used to come from France, dated to 50,000 years ago. Experts saw this skill as a late development that needed smart planning. But the Barnham ...

Scientists recently discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making by humans — and it’s far older than scholars previously believed. The study, which was published in the ...

The ability to make fire on demand has long been seen as a turning point in our evolutionary story. It unlocked benefits like cooking food, staying warm, and protection from predators. For thousands ...

The controlled use of fire was a key part of the development of human technology with a range of uses that greatly expanded human cultural evolution. Although evidence at a number of archaeological ...

A research team at the British Museum, led by Nick Ashton and Rob Davis, reports evidence that ancient humans could make and manage fire about 400,000 years ago. The findings, published in Nature, ...