Scientists have discovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk - ...

Researchers identified a repeatedly used campfire including heated clay, heat-shattered flint handaxes and iron pyrite ...

Seven remarkably preserved footprints in an ancient lakebed represent the oldest evidence of human presence in the Middle East, dating back approximately 115,000 years before the Ice Age ...

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

Neanderthals created fires about 415,000 years ago in eastern England, evidence uncovered by researchers suggests.

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific community's best guess for the likely path of early human migration. While walking ...

Since the time of the dinosaurs, cycad plants may have attracted insects using infrared light. It may be the world's oldest ...

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

New genetic research is shedding light on some of the earliest chapters of our human history. In one of the largest studies ...

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