Fire leaves behind a simple story when it is fresh. Ash settles, bones blacken, wood chars. Over a million years later, that story becomes much harder to read. In South Africa’s Wonderwerk Cave, ...

Bones marked by burning from deep within South Africa's Wonderwerk Cave are reshaping the debate over when early humans began managing fire, as Archaeology Mag details. Dated to nearly 1.8 million ...

For millennia, humans have told stories about stealing fire from the gods. In Greek mythology, the Titan Prometheus gifts fire to humanity after sneaking it away from the gods’ home on Mount Olympus.

Fire is not necessarily one of humanity’s greatest inventions. It was doing a perfectly good job of inventing itself every time lightning hit a dry grassland. But figuring out how to make it and use ...

The discovery of fire was a major milestone in human evolution, giving our ancestors a way to stay warm, ward off predators, and eventually start cooking food. But exactly when this first happened is ...

A new study has uncovered evidence that early human ancestors were using fire in South Africa's Wonderwerk Cave between 1.07 and 1.79 million years ago, extending the chronology of one of the earliest ...

Researchers believe they've uncovered ancient evidence that early human ancestors used fire in an African cave — pushing back the timeline by hundreds of thousands of years. The discovery, made at a ...

Our early human ancestors telling fireside stories may have propelled the development of speech by facilitating discussion of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Wonderwerk Cave entrance. Burned fossil bones in Wonderwerk Cave suggest early humans used fire there between 1.07 and 1.79 ...