The ability to make fire on demand has long been seen as a turning point in our evolutionary story. It unlocked benefits like ...

A research team at the British Museum, led by Nick Ashton and Rob Davis, reports evidence that ancient humans could make and ...

A patch of scorched earth in eastern England is forcing scientists to rethink one of the most important turning points in human evolution. New evidence that early humans were deliberately making fire ...

Archaeologists working in eastern England say they have found the earliest known traces of humans deliberately kindling fire, ...

Scientists recently discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making by humans — and it’s far older than scholars previously believed.

Fragments of iron pyrite, a rock that can be used with flint to make sparks, were found by a 400,000-year-old hearth in eastern Britain. (Jordan Mansfield | Courtesy Pathways to Ancient Britain ...

(CNN) — A field in eastern England has revealed evidence of the earliest known instance of humans creating and controlling fire, a significant find that archaeologists say illuminates a dramatic ...

Iron pyrite is a naturally occurring mineral that can be used to strike flint, creating sparks to ignite tinder. Pyrite's rarity in the local area suggests these early people had knowledge of its ...

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 ...