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

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

Learn how a digitally reconstructed 1.5-million-year-old fossil from Ethiopia is reshaping ideas about what early human ...

Researchers investigate hundreds of motifs made by Halafians and determine that they exhibited mathematical themes.

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 ...

Learn how genomes from 28 ancient individuals show that Homo sapiens lived in southern Africa in near isolation for hundreds ...

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

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

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

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 ...

New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

The museum’s groundbreaking Hall of Human Origins centers around the adaptations that set early humans apart Jack Tamisiea What does it mean to be human? This question, deceptively simple and imbued ...