Learning to light our own fires was one of the great turning points in human history, offering our ancestors warmth, a place ...

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

Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering ...

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

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

Evidence uncovered in a field in Suffolk, England indicates that ancient humans intentionally harnessed fire more than ...

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...

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A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.