Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery ...

Are these some of the earliest weapons in human history? History Hit’s Tristan Hughes speaks to Dr Annemieke Milks, ...

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

Archaeologists say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.

New clues about our earliest ancestors suggest they may have reached Eurasia sooner than scientists once thought. Fossils found in Romania hint that hominins left Africa nearly two million years ...

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 ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

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

Excited scientists announced Wednesday they have discovered evidence in the UK of humans deliberately making fire 400,000 ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than 6 miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. The development of the Oldowan toolkit made it possible for ...

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, ...