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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists say they have identified the earliest known evidence of humans making fire, dating to about 400,000 years ago. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earliest evidence of human fire-making found at 400,000-year-old Suffolk site. Researchers led by the British Museum have ...

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Some of the first human beings to arrive in Tasmania, over 41,000 years ago, used fire to shape and manage the landscape, about 2,000 years earlier than previously thought. A team of researchers from ...

A research team at the British Museum, led by Nick Ashton and Rob Davis, reports evidence that ancient humans could make and manage fire about 400,000 years ago. The findings, published in Nature, ...