Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...

The discovery site at East Farm, Barnham, England lies hidden within a disused clay pit tucked away in the wooded landscape between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds. Professor Nick Ashton from the British ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Researchers have discovered the earliest known instance of human-created fire, which took place in the east of England 400,000 years ago. The new discovery, in the village of Barnham, pushes the ...

The presence of pyrite was an unmistakable sign. Striking flint against pyrite nodules creates sparks, and which can be used to start fire. This pushes back the earliest known controlled use of fire ...

Sites in Africa suggest humans used natural fire over a million years ago, but the discovery at the Palaeolithic site in Barnham evidences the creation and control of fire, which carries huge ...

Professor Nick Ashton, curator of Palaeolithic Collections at the British Museum, said it was the “most exciting discovery of ...

The earliest known evidence of human fire-making has been discovered in the UK dating back over 400,000, in a new ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

The earliest known evidence of fire-making by humans has been discovered in the UK and dates back more than 400,000 years, ...

In a recent review published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, researchers discussed the role of climatic shifts and vegetation changes in driving the evolution within the subfamily ...