Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...
The presence of pyrite was an unmistakable sign. Striking flint against pyrite nodules creates sparks, and which can be used to start fire. This pushes back the earliest known controlled use of fire ...
An ancient human species, Homo floresiensis, once thrived on the Indonesian island of Flores, but their sudden disappearance ...
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 ...
An excavation in Suffolk, UK, has uncovered pyrite and flint that appear to have been used by ancient humans to light fires ...
Archaeologists found flint, iron pyrite to strike it and sediments where a fire was probably built several times at an ...
Evidence uncovered in a field in Suffolk, England indicates that ancient humans intentionally harnessed fire more than ...
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'It is the most exciting discovery in my 40-year career': Archaeologists uncover evidence that Neanderthals made fire 400,000 years ago in England
Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...
In 2023, archaeologists announced the discovery of arrowheads in a grotto in southern France dated to 54,000 years ago, and ...
From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...
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