(Kamila Kozioł/iStock/Getty Images Plus) When it comes to phenomena that may have changed the course of human history, fire ...
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Humans may have learned to use fire nearly 800,000 years earlier than we thought, South African cave suggests
The first humans to use fire probably didn’t start it themselves. They may have simply stolen it from the landscape, probably ...
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 ...
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New research finds early humans first used fire over one million years ago
Fire leaves behind a simple story when it is fresh. Ash settles, bones blacken, wood chars. Over a million years later, that ...
Inside the limestone chambers of South Africa’s Wonderwerk Cave, small fragments of bone have been telling a story that is ...
What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such as giant sloths and giant armadillos. In a study published in the journal ...
In the dry storytelling of palaeontology, certain discoveries tend to arrive with a kind of quiet disruption. Not the sort ...
As early humans spread from lush African forests into grasslands, their need for ready sources of energy led them to develop a taste for grassy plants, especially grains and the starchy plant tissue ...
Modern humans who lived close to the equator were found to be more likely to be able to digest bugs, but this ability ...
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