The discovery pushes back global fire-making timelines and suggests our ancestors transported materials, such as iron pyrite, to spark flames. Archaeologists excavate the Barnham site in Suffolk, ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence in the UK of fire-making by early humans 400,000 years ago — 350,000 years earlier than previous records. The researchers found clay that had been burned ...

Archaeologists unearthed a fire-drilling toolset dating back about 7,000 years at an archaeological site in Jiangsu Province in eastern China. The discovery marks the earliest known physical evidence ...

NANJING, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- Archaeologists have unearthed a fire-drilling toolset dating back about 7,000 years at an archaeological site in east China's Jiangsu Province, marking it as the earliest ...

Deliberate fire-making by humans in the UK may date to more than 400,000 years ago, according to evidence described in Nature this week. The discovery of baked sediments, heat-shattered flint axes and ...