Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

Discovery in Suffolk dates back 400,000 years, pushing timeline for controlled fire-making back by at least 360,000 years - ...

Humans likely harvested their first flames from wildfire. When they learned to make it themselves, it changed everything.

Recent advances in ancient DNA analysis have sparked intriguing discussions about the possibility of non-human entities once ruling the Earth. While such claims challenge the boundaries of ...

The Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom (2686–2125 B.C.) produced many lasting artefacts—but little DNA has survived. Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built ...

New research led by the British Museum has found evidence of the world’s oldest human fire-making activity in Barnham, ...

Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...

New evidence suggests that alcohol was a surprisingly big motivator in our monumental transition from hunting and gathering ...