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Professor Nick Ashton, curator of Palaeolithic Collections at the British Museum, said it was the “most exciting discovery of ...

Researchers have discovered the earliest known instance of human-created fire, which took place in the east of England 400,000 years ago. The new discovery, in the village of Barnham, pushes the ...

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Based on a comprehensive study, researchers are now convinced the shafts were human-made, likely dug during the Late ...

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