The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

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Evidence uncovered in a field in Suffolk, England indicates that ancient humans intentionally harnessed fire more than 350,000 years earlier than previously believed. According to a British Museum-led ...

Stone tools discovered on Crete and other Greek islands suggest that ancient humans deliberately crossed open seas more than ...

Researchers at the University of Cologne use simulations to investigate the likelihood of interactions between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans on the Iberian Peninsula / publication in ...

Evidence from a site in southeast England suggests early humans were purposefully and repeatedly igniting blazes roughly ...

Researchers at the University of Cologne use simulations to investigate the likelihood of interactions between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans on the Iberian Peninsula / publication in ...

New findings suggest humans mastered fire far earlier than believed, transforming diets, social life, and survival in ancient ...

New research led by the British Museum has found evidence of the world’s oldest human fire-making activity in Barnham, ...

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These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...