New evidence in England suggests that Neanderthals lit and controlled fires long before the first recorded use of controlled ...

A team of researchers led by the British Museum has unearthed the oldest known evidence of fire-making, dating back more than ...

New research led by the British Museum has found evidence of the world’s oldest human fire-making activity in Barnham, ...

Researchers say the discovery sheds new light on early Neanderthal behavior and suggests fire making played a major role in ...

The hearth was situated close to a natural water source where these early humans are thought to have set up camp.

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

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 ...

Humans made fire 350,000 years earlier than we thought, scientists discover - Fire-cracked flint and heated sediments have ...

Sites in Africa suggest humans used natural fire over a million years ago, but the discovery at the Palaeolithic site in Barnham evidences the creation and control of fire, which carries huge ...

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 ...

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

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