A team of researchers led by the British Museum has unearthed the oldest known evidence of fire-making, dating back more than 400,000 years, in a field in Suffolk. The discovery shows humans were ...
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Scientists discover the earliest evidence of human fire-making dating back 400,000 years
A research team at the British Museum, led by Nick Ashton and Rob Davis, reports evidence that ancient humans could make and ...
A field in eastern England has revealed evidence of the earliest known instance of humans creating and controlling fire, a significant find that archaeologists say illuminates a dramatic turning point ...
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Oldest evidence of human-made fire rewrites Neanderthal ingenuity
The earliest known proof that humans could create fire rather than simply use it now sits in a patch of scorched sediment and broken stone tools from eastern England, shifting a cornerstone of early ...
The ability to make fire on demand has long been seen as a turning point in our evolutionary story. It unlocked benefits like ...
Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?
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