Study finds humans were making fire 400,000 years ago, far earlier than once thought

Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 ...

This could be the oldest evidence of fire-making

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.
The Economist

Humans were lighting fires from scratch a lot earlier than previously thought

The human use of fire, attested by evidence from Africa, goes back around 1.6m years. But, hitherto, the oldest signs of ...

This is the oldest evidence of people starting fires

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 ...