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

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

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

Plants have been part of our diet as long as meat has, with new evidence showing that Neanderthals, early Homo sapiens and ...

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

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

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

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

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

“I’m constantly having conversations” with different AI tools, says Spikes. “I’ll give them information and have stand-up ...

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

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...