New identification technique pushes back timeline of early human fire use to over millenia ago

Researchers explained that when bones exposed to high levels of heat are illuminated with specific light wavelengths, they ...

Humans Were Using Fire Long Before Scientists Thought Possible, Study Says

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 ...
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Ancient fire record rewritten: Researchers push earliest evidence of human fire use back to over a million years

A new study has uncovered evidence that early human ancestors were using fire in South Africa's Wonderwerk Cave between 1.07 and 1.79 million years ago, extending the chronology of one of the earliest ...
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Fire-making materials at 400,000-year-old site are the oldest evidence of humans making fire

It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...