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

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

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

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

The human use of fire, attested by evidence from Africa, goes back around 1.6m years. But, hitherto, the oldest signs of ...

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

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Speculation about human evolution over the next thousand years.