Researchers analyze nine prehistoric sites with evidence of fire use and determine why exactly early humans built fire.

Long before the days of electricity and fridge freezers, meat was preserved by smoke. A new study suggests the practice could ...

Fire helped early humans preserve meat and deter predators, offering a survival advantage long before regular cooking.

It is arguable that the discovery of fire is one of the most important developments in the history of our species, if not the most important one. Our mastery over this elemental force has shaped so ...

Archaeological finds off the coast of Java, Indonesia, provide insight into the world of Homo erectus, 140,000 years ago. Skull fragments and other fossil remains provide a unique picture of how ...

A 500,000-year-old tool-making workshop, potentially the oldest in North India, has been discovered in the Mangar Bani forests of Haryana. The site re ...

Our history of making light may go back as a far a million years, when members of Homo erectus, “the first humans,” experimented with making fire.