Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The discovery was made in a disused clay pit near Barnham, Suffolk (Jordan Mansfield/PA Wire) The earliest known evidence of human ...

Researchers found evidence that suggests Neanderthals could make fire 400,000 years ago at an archaeological site near Suffolk in the United Kingdom. (Jordan Mansfield / Pathways to Ancient Britain ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...

The earliest known evidence of human fire-making has been discovered in the UK dating back over 400,000, in a new groundbreaking discovery. Fire-cracked flint, hand axes and heated sediments have been ...