Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the Caoyangang site in Jiangsu Province, archaeologists made a stunning discovery in an ongoing investigation: the longest and ...

Fragments of iron pyrite, a rock that can be used with flint to make sparks, were found by a 400,000-year-old hearth in eastern Britain. (Jordan Mansfield | Courtesy Pathways to Ancient Britain ...

CAOYANGANG, CHINA—The Global Times reports that archaeologists working at the Caoyangang site in Jiangsu Province unearthed a 7,000-year-old fire-starting kit. It represents the region's earliest ...

A groundbreaking discovery in Barnham, UK, has revealed the earliest evidence of humans using tools to create fire, dating back over 400,000 years. Published in Nature, this study sheds new light on a ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Where did that uniquely human ...

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 ...