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

Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of the earliest fire-making, dating back 400,000 years, in Suffolk, England. The mastery of fire was long considered the exclusive hallmark of modern humans, Homo sapiens.

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

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

For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East Africa, then spread south later. It’s clean, familiar, and easy to repeat.

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

Learn how genomes from 28 ancient individuals show that Homo sapiens lived in southern Africa in near isolation for hundreds of millennia — preserving rare genetic variants that still exist today.

New evidence suggests that alcohol was a surprisingly big motivator in our monumental transition from hunting and gathering to farming – but was beer really more important to us than bread?

(CN) — Step aside, Bob the Builder — ancient human relatives have been collecting stone materials to build personal toolkits for as long as 2.6 million years, scientists said Friday. Known collectively as the Oldowan toolkit, these collections of ...

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The research reveals that our human ancestors were periodically exposed to lead for over two million years, and that the toxic metal may ...