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

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

Researchers say they’ve uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of human evolution ...

The discovery site at East Farm, Barnham, England lies hidden within a disused clay pit tucked away in the wooded landscape between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds. Professor Nick Ashton from the British ...

And something is happening here, but you don’t know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?” Bob Dylan wrote that in 1965 about a man watching the world slip out of his grasp. The strange thing is how well it ...

Professor Nick Ashton, curator of Palaeolithic Collections at the British Museum, said it was the “most exciting discovery of ...

Archaeologists in Suffolk, UK uncovered a 400,000-year-old campfire, raising major questions about when early humans first ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in ...

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

Another twist has been added to the puzzling mix that is early human ancestry with evidence that one of the most complete pre ...

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...

The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...