Researchers found evidence that suggests Neanderthals could make fire 400,000 years ago at an archaeological site near Suffolk in the United Kingdom. (Jordan Mansfield / Pathways to Ancient Britain ...
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 ...
Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?