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

Another twist has been added to the puzzling mix that is early human ancestry with evidence that one of the most complete pre ...

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

An excavation in Suffolk, UK, has uncovered pyrite and flint that appear to have been used by ancient humans to light fires ...

New research led by the British Museum has found evidence of the world’s oldest human fire-making activity in Barnham, ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

Archaeologists say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.

Cats didn’t become house pets because humans needed them. They didn’t herd animals, pull carts, or guard property.

The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...

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 ...

Learn how a digitally reconstructed 1.5-million-year-old fossil from Ethiopia is reshaping ideas about what early human ...

New research shows early humans relied on many plant foods. They ground seeds, cooked roots, and used simple tools long ...