Scientists have discovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk - ...

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

A fossilized human footprint found in southern Chile has been dated to 15,600 years ago, making it the oldest known footprint ...

Discoveries ranging from the oldest known example of human mummification to first deliberate use of fire by people were made ...

The study, published in the journal Nature, is based on a years-long examination of a reddish patch of sediment excavated at a site in Barnham.

Researchers identified a repeatedly used campfire including heated clay, heat-shattered flint handaxes and iron pyrite ...

An ancient fingerprint and several chemical clues from a 2,400-year-old sea raiders' boat are revealing secrets about where ...

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

Scientists revealed Wednesday that they have uncovered evidence in the U.K. of humans intentionally making fire 400,000 years ...

NICK ASHTON: We think humans brought pyrite to the site with the intention of making fire. ROTT: Which would make the site ...