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

"We think humans brought pyrite to the site with the intention of making fire. And this has huge implications, pushing back ...

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

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

Sundaland was a vast Southeast Asian landmass that existed for most of the last 2 million years, exposed during glacial ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Discovery of iron pyrite at a site in England pushes back the date of human fire creation by 350,000 years Early humans may ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence in Suffolk revealing that Neanderthals were making fire 415,000 years ago, significantly earlier than previously thought. This discovery sheds light on their ...

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

Archaeologists say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.

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