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"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. Scientists have ...

The oldest accepted signs of people making fire on demand used to come from France, dated to 50,000 years ago. Experts saw this skill as a late development that needed smart planning. But the Barnham ...

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 ...