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 at East Farm Barnham in Suffolk have uncovered a prehistoric fireplace at the centre of what may have been a ...

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

A 400,000-year-old hearth in an English clay pit suggests our distant cousins were making and tending fire far earlier than ...

The expression of symbolic behavior, such as drawing, dates back to Paleolithic societies. Alongside modern humans (Homo ...

In 2004, archaeologists discovered a new species of ancient human, Homo floresiensis, on the Indonesian island of Flores. Nicknamed “the hobbit,” this three-foot-tall hominin lived between about ...

A new study published in the Journal of World Prehistory reveals that some of humanity's earliest artistic representations of ...

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

Experts suggest humans made fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought, scientists say.

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk - ...

Humans likely harvested their first flames from wildfire. When they learned to make it themselves, it changed everything.

Sea levels rose at the end of the last Ice Age, drowning vast portions of Australia’s ancient landscape. Recent underwater ...