Whether for cooking, heating, as a light source or for making tools -- it is assumed that fire was essential for the survival of people in the Ice Age. However, it is puzzling that hardly any ...

Is it the case that control of fire by Neanderthals was mastered 350,000 years before the previously believed date? Evidence ...

New evidence has been found showing that early modern humans living on the southern coast of Africa 72,000 years ago employed pyrotechnology -- the controlled use of fire -- to increase the quality ...

Study Reveals Sophisticated Ice Age Pyrotechnology News April 17, 2025 Philip R. Nigst ...

“This discovery is extraordinary on multiple levels,” researchers wrote in the study. A 12,000-year-old figurine shows early human-animal interaction, predating the Neolithic era. The artifact ...

For hundreds of thousands of years, people have used fire for everything from cooking to warmth. And now, archaeologists are using fire to track the migration patterns of prehistoric people. A new ...

Only humans have been able to control and make fire. But how far back in our prehistory does this unique ability go, and how do we know? In this video, Ellery Frahm, research scientist in the ...

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