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Excited scientists announced Wednesday they have discovered evidence in the UK of humans deliberately making fire 400,000 ...

Scientists revealed Wednesday that they have uncovered evidence in the U.K. of humans intentionally making fire 400,000 years ...

The discovery pushes back global fire-making timelines and suggests our ancestors transported materials, such as iron pyrite, ...

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

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

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