A field in eastern England has revealed evidence of the earliest known instance of humans creating and controlling fire, a significant find that archaeologists say illuminates a dramatic turning point ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The discovery was made in a disused clay pit near Barnham, Suffolk (Jordan Mansfield/PA Wire) The earliest known evidence of human ...

Archaeologists have made a discovery that could challenge everything we know about human development. Footage shows scientists examining an excavation site of a 400,000-year-old pond sediment in ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest evidence of ancient humans igniting fires: a 400,000-year-old open-air hearth buried in an old clay pit in southern England. The study, published in the journal ...