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

About 170 years ago, a large bundle of stone tools was deliberately buried close to a waterhole in the remote Australian ...

I made a polished stone celt axe using only primitive tools. Grinding and shaping the stone carefully produced a sharp, ...

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

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 ...

At the Paleolithic site of Medzhibozh in Ukraine, archaeologists identified ivory fragments shaped into tools nearly 400,000 ...

A groundbreaking discovery reveals that early humans, possibly Neanderthals, were using tools to create fire more than ...

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

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

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