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Oldest known fire-making site discovered

About 400,000 years ago, someone struck a piece of pyrite against a stone and started fire. It was a huge leap from just ...
"We think humans brought pyrite to the site with the intention of making fire. And this has huge implications, pushing back the earliest fire-making," said archaeologist Nick Ashton.
The Webb space telescope observed a supernova that took place when the universe was 730 million years old, setting a new ...
Scientists have discovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk - ...
Scientists have uncovered the oldest-known evidence of deliberate fire-making by prehistoric humans in Suffolk, Britain – ...
Nearby what was thought to be the oldest known astrological observatory in the Western Hemisphere, archaeologists discovered ...
Scientists revealed Wednesday that they have uncovered evidence in the U.K. of humans intentionally making fire 400,000 years ...
The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...
Pyrite found at a 400,000-year-old site in Barnham, England suggests that early humans were making fire long before experts ...
Neanderthals created fires about 415,000 years ago in eastern England, evidence uncovered by researchers suggests.
Gravestone slabs, cauldrons and other items recovered from the "Mortar Wreck" are now on display at the newly reopened Poole ...