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 controlled use of fire was a landmark event for the human evolutionary lineage, not only for cooking and providing ...

Researchers have discovered the earliest known instance of human-created fire, which took place in the east of England 400,000 years ago. The new discovery, in the village of Barnham, pushes the ...

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

An international research team led by the British Museum has unearthed in a field in Suffolk the oldest known material ...

The study, published in the journal Nature, is based on a years-long examination of a reddish patch of sediment excavated at ...

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

Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

The unearthing had "profound effects on human evolution" according to the groundbreaking study.

A team of researchers led by the British Museum has unearthed the oldest known evidence of fire-making, dating back more than ...