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

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 say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.

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