New findings suggest humans mastered fire far earlier than believed, transforming diets, social life, and survival in ancient ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The discovery was made in a disused clay pit near Barnham, Suffolk (Jordan Mansfield/PA Wire) The earliest known evidence of human ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Excavation of 400,000 year old pond sediments at Barnham, Suffolk. (CREDIT: Jordan Mansfield) A research team at the British ...

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

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 ...

It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...

Early humans may have created fire 400,000 years ago, according to evidence unearthed at an archaeological site in England. Although there is evidence that early humans used natural fire in Africa as ...

The discovery of a Neanderthal fire pit in southeastern England has revealed that fire was made by humans at least 400,000 years ago. Previously, it was thought that humans had begun to make fire only ...