A new analysis of charcoal recovered from one of the oldest known sites of controlled fire use argues that early humans chose ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Wonderwerk Cave entrance. Burned fossil bones in Wonderwerk Cave suggest early humans used fire there between 1.07 and 1.79 ...

Bones marked by burning from deep within South Africa's Wonderwerk Cave are reshaping the debate over when early humans began managing fire, as Archaeology Mag details. Dated to nearly 1.8 million ...

Tiny fragments of iron pyrite, found alongside heat-damaged stone tools and ancient hearth remains, suggest that early humans ...

Nearly 800,000 years ago, early humans gathered along the shores of a lush lake in what is now northern Israel. Here, they returned again and again, hunting large animals, cooking fish over controlled ...

Some 73,000 years ago in what is now South Africa, an early human used a red ochre crayon to draw a cross-hatched pattern ...

The discovery of fire was a major milestone in human evolution, giving our ancestors a way to stay warm, ward off predators, and eventually start cooking food. But exactly when this first happened is ...

An international team in South Africa has pinned the earliest known use of fire by Homo erectus back to between 1.07 and 1.79 million years ago. Reading time 3 minutes Researchers have been excavating ...