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

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Mandible of a hunter-gatherer woman who lived 7900 years ago at Matjes River Rockshelter in the Western Cape, South Africa, for whom a genome was reconstructed. 300,000-year old Homo sapiens genetic ...

"We think humans brought pyrite to the site with the intention of making fire. And this has huge implications, pushing back the earliest fire-making," said archaeologist Nick Ashton.

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 ...

Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of the earliest fire-making, dating back 400,000 years, in Suffolk, England. The ...

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

The Matjes River Rockshelter in the Western Cape, South Africa, 540 km east of Cape Town. Eight people who lived here between 10,200 and 3000 years ago contributed DNA to this study. 300,000-year old ...

In a groundbreaking archaeological discovery, researchers have unearthed a 476,000-year-old wooden structure at Kalambo Falls in Zambia, revealing that early ...

In the lush surroundings of northern Zambia, beneath the cascading waters of Kalambo Falls, an extraordinary archaeological discovery has emerged. Researchers ...

Evidence from a site in southeast England suggests early humans were purposefully and repeatedly igniting blazes roughly ...

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...