A research team at the British Museum, led by Nick Ashton and Rob Davis, reports evidence that ancient humans could make and manage fire about 400,000 years ago. The findings, published in Nature, ...
At a site called East Farm in England, recent excavations revealed reddened silt, flint handaxes distorted by heat, and fragments of a mineral—iron pyrite—that could have been used to make sparks on ...
CAOYANGANG, CHINA—The Global Times reports that archaeologists working at the Caoyangang site in Jiangsu Province unearthed a 7,000-year-old fire-starting kit. It represents the region's earliest ...
FROM LOGBOOK: BARK-WRAPPED FIREMAKING KIT? SEE NOTE IN LOGBOOK. New Guinea (not certain) / Irian Jaya (Western New Guinea/Papua) (not certain), Indonesia (not certain) / Papua New Guinea (not certain) ...
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