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

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

At the Paleolithic site of Medzhibozh in Ukraine, archaeologists identified ivory fragments shaped into tools nearly 400,000 ...

A groundbreaking discovery reveals that early humans, possibly Neanderthals, were using tools to create fire more than ...

Archaeologists in England say a few tiny mineral flecks may rewrite a big chapter in human prehistory. At a site called ...

The discovery site at East Farm, Barnham, England lies hidden within a disused clay pit tucked away in the wooded landscape between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds. Professor Nick Ashton from the British ...

In 2004, archaeologists discovered a new species of ancient human, Homo floresiensis, on the Indonesian island of Flores. Nicknamed “the hobbit,” this three-foot-tall hominin lived between about ...

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.

Archaeologists found flint, iron pyrite to strike it and sediments where a fire was probably built several times at an ...

Evidence uncovered in a field in Suffolk, England indicates that ancient humans intentionally harnessed fire more than ...

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...

In 2023, archaeologists announced the discovery of arrowheads in a grotto in southern France dated to 54,000 years ago, and ...