US EditionEarliest Known Evidence of Human Fire-Making Discovered in Suffolk
Archaeologists found a scorched earth patch and fire-cracked hand axes proving deliberate fire-making 400,000 years ago, nearly 350,000 years earlier than prior evidence.
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Humans Made Fire 350,000 Years Earlier Than Thought, UK Discovery Suggests
Humans Made Fire 350,000 Years Earlier Than Thought, UK Discovery Suggests (Maria) The author writes, “Humans mastered the art of creating fire 400,000 years ago, almost 350,000 years earlier than previously known, according to a groundbreaking discovery in a field in Suffolk, U.K. It is known that humans used fire more than a million years ago, but until now the earliest unambiguous example of humans making fire came from a site in northern Fra…
Recent excavations at the Barnham site in Suffolk, England have revealed evidence that fire control dates back more than 400,000 years before the arrival of Homo sapiens in Europe. This discovery, attributed to Homo heidelbergensis or their Neandertal descendants, partially rewrites our history and invites us to reconsider the chronology of technical advances of hominidae. Read more: Other hominids have mastered fire before Homo sapiens: implica…
Archaeologists discover earliest evidence of humans using tools to make fire
The taming of fire is credited with sparking humanity's evolutionary journey towards our modern levels of intelligence. Fire gave early humans access to a broader range of safe foods, fueling the development of larger brains and paving the way for the birth of Homo sapiens, so the cooking hypothesis goes.A new discovery of baked sediments, artifacts, and pieces of firelighting pyrite in a UK claypit suggests that humans already had the capacity …
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