A study shows Neanderthals made first fire in Britain 400,000 years ago, pushing back the timeline of controlled fire use by ...

Halafian culture arranged floral depictions on pottery with symmetry and numerical sequences, displaying one of the earliest ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

The controlled use of fire was a landmark event for the human evolutionary lineage, not only for cooking and providing ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk - ...

The taming of fire is credited with sparking humanity's evolutionary journey towards our modern levels of intelligence.

With the human family tree now more like a hedge and twice as many known moons, Bill Bryson talks to the New Scientist ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival traits.

Archaeologists in Britain have uncovered new evidence which suggests humankind's ability to master fire is some 350,000 years older than previously thought.

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

In a discovery that promises to reshape our understanding of early human life, archaeologists in England have unearthed the ...

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