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

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

A major international study published in the peer-reviewed open-access journal, PeerJ, has formally identified a new species ...

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 ...

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

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.

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Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...