The ability to make fire on demand has long been seen as a turning point in our evolutionary story. It unlocked benefits like ...

Is it the case that control of fire by Neanderthals was mastered 350,000 years before the previously believed date? Evidence from new research at Barnham, Suffolk, makes that assertion very compelling ...

Archaeologists working in eastern England say they have found the earliest known traces of humans deliberately kindling fire, ...

Set aside your matches or lighter and try to start a fire—chances are you’d be left cold and hungry. But as early as 400,000 years ago, ancient hominins may have had the skills to conjure flame, ...