The discovery of fire was a major milestone in human evolution, giving our ancestors a way to stay warm, ward off predators, ...

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Researchers at Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa found evidence of ancient fire use dating between 1.07 and 1.79 million years ...

It’s been a longstanding question: when did we first learn how to light a fire? Archaeologists in the UK believe they’re much closer to an answer after unearthing evidence that early humans were ...

Archaeologists working in eastern England say they have found the earliest known traces of humans deliberately kindling fire, a discovery that pushes one of our species’ defining skills far deeper ...

While few of us today know how to start a bonfire without matches or a lighter, learning to make fire was one of the most critical developments in human history. New evidence suggests humans figured ...

A field in eastern England has revealed evidence of the earliest known instance of humans creating and controlling fire, a significant find that archaeologists say illuminates a dramatic turning point ...

Billy Joel famously sang, we didn't start the fire - it was always burning since the world's been turning. But that's not entirely true. Humans do start fires to cook, to heat, to gather around.

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

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 ...