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

According to the team, that pine pitch is the first major new clue in over a century. When the boat was built, Denmark itself ...

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 ...

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 deliberate fire-setting by striking pyrite with flints, unearthed in France, ...

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

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...

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

Seven remarkably preserved footprints in an ancient lakebed represent the oldest evidence of human presence in the Middle ...