Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering ...

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

Humans likely harvested their first flames from wildfire. When they learned to make it themselves, it changed everything.

New evidence suggests that alcohol was a surprisingly big motivator in our monumental transition from hunting and gathering to farming – but was beer really more important to us than bread?

A team of researchers led by the British Museum has unearthed the oldest known evidence of fire-making, dating back more than ...

Sea levels rose at the end of the last Ice Age, drowning vast portions of Australia’s ancient landscape. Recent underwater ...

Discovery in Suffolk dates back 400,000 years, pushing timeline for controlled fire-making back by at least 360,000 years - ...

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...

A fireplace found in Suffolk is thought to have been made by Neanderthals 400,000 years ago, far earlier than previously ...

The discovery pushes back global fire-making timelines and suggests our ancestors transported materials, such as iron pyrite, ...