"We think humans brought pyrite to the site with the intention of making fire. And this has huge implications, pushing back ...

Learning to light our own fires was one of the great turning points in human history, offering our ancestors warmth, a place ...

Excited scientists have discovered evidence in the UK of humans deliberately making fire 400,000 years ago, dramatically ...

The discovery pushes back global fire-making timelines and suggests our ancestors transported materials, such as iron pyrite, ...

A UC Berkeley-led analysis of tree mortality after two recent Amazonian droughts shows that “hot drought” conditions, which are becoming more frequent, are leading to tree dieoffs and reducing the ...

A new analysis of the Hjortspring boat, an ancient wooden plank boat now on display in the National Museum of Denmark, has ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the earliest-known evidence of deliberately lit campfires at a site in the UK dated to be 400,000 years old.

The human use of fire, attested by evidence from Africa, goes back around 1.6m years. But, hitherto, the oldest signs of ...

Scientists revealed Wednesday that they have uncovered evidence in the U.K. of humans intentionally making fire 400,000 years ...

The Amazon rainforest is slowly transitioning to a new, hotter climate with more frequent and intense droughts—conditions ...