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A new study suggests early humans were using fire in South Africa’s Wonderwerk Cave as far back as 1.79 million years ago. Researchers found burned bones deep inside the cave, where natural wildfires ...

For millennia, humans have told stories about stealing fire from the gods. In Greek mythology, the Titan Prometheus gifts ...

Inside the limestone chambers of South Africa’s Wonderwerk Cave, small fragments of bone have been telling a story that is ...

(Kamila Kozioł/iStock/Getty Images Plus) When it comes to phenomena that may have changed the course of human history, fire ...

Discovery of prehistoric female-only cemetery changes what we know about early human society - Evidence suggests very early ...

In the dry storytelling of palaeontology, certain discoveries tend to arrive with a kind of quiet disruption. Not the sort ...

Modern humans who lived close to the equator were found to be more likely to be able to digest bugs, but this ability decreased among modern humans as the distance from the tropics increased. The ...

An international study of infant remains from 50,000–75,000 years ago has provided new evidence about the developmental ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral population in Africa. By analyzing genetic data from diverse modern African ...

A new method that detects whether bones have been burned reveals Homo erectus brought fires into caves far earlier than ...

Fire leaves behind a simple story when it is fresh. Ash settles, bones blacken, wood chars. Over a million years later, that ...