Humans likely harvested their first flames from wildfire. When they learned to make it themselves, it changed everything.

Experts suggest humans made fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought, scientists say.

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

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

Archaeologists at East Farm Barnham in Suffolk have uncovered a prehistoric fireplace at the centre of what may have been a ...

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

A new study reveals how Neanderthals used reindeer bones to create tools for skinning animals, likely to craft waterproof ...

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 ...

Sea levels rose at the end of the last Ice Age, drowning vast portions of Australia’s ancient landscape. Recent underwater ...

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...

What did a vulture-bone flute sound like inside a cave? How about singing inside a tomb? Researchers are bringing ancient ...

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