Roebrokes noted that later Neanderthal sites, dated to around 50,000 years ago, featured flint tools that showed traces of ...
The presence of pyrite was an unmistakable sign. Striking flint against pyrite nodules creates sparks, and which can be used to start fire. This pushes back the earliest known controlled use of fire ...
A major archaeological discovery in Suffolk shows that early Neanderthals were making fire about 400,000 years ago, pushing ...
Researchers have discovered the earliest known instance of human-created fire, which took place in the east of England 400,000 years ago. The new discovery, in the village of Barnham, pushes the ...
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 ...
A 400,000-year-old hearth in an English clay pit suggests our distant cousins were making and tending fire far earlier than ...
Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...
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