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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 ...
New Atlas

Neanderthals were actually making fire 400,000 years ago

The ability to make fire on demand has long been seen as a turning point in our evolutionary story. It unlocked benefits like ...

Scientists shatter timeline of human fire-making with 400,000-year-old discovery in England

The earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making by humans was discovered at 400,000-year-old site in Barnham, England, ...

Nick Ashton, curator at the British Museum, on 400,000-year-old site: “we have the earliest evidence of making fire”

A team of archaeologists say that artifacts found in England push back the earliest known date of hominids making fire some 350,000 years.

New evidence for the earliest intentional human fire-making

The knowledge of how to make fire rather than relying on the exploitation of naturally occurring fire marked a key ...
Texas Public Radio

Fire-making materials at 400,000-year-old site are the oldest evidence of humans making fire

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 ...
The Print on MSN

A 400,000-year-old fire pit & iron pyrite: What this UK discovery tells us about human evolution

Researchers believe the location served as a hunter-gatherer camp frequented by homo heidelbergensis, an early human ancestor ...
Independent.ie

‘They are making us beg’ – pyrite-hit home owners ready to march on Dáil as they’re left in debt for thousands

Jamie Lee Donnelly and Lauren Devers, organisers of a protest about pyrite-affected homes in Ballina, Co. Mayo. Thousands of people whose pyrite-contaminated homes are crumbling around them are set to ...