Evidence from a site in southeast England suggests early humans were purposefully and repeatedly igniting blazes roughly ...

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

Archaeologist Paula García Medrano, researcher at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), ...

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

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

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

The taming of fire is credited with sparking humanity's evolutionary journey towards our modern levels of intelligence. Fire ...

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 ...

Footprints and drag marks from early humans using travois are discovered at White Sands, NM, dating back 22,000 years.