Earliest evidence found of rice plants in the Pacific on Guam, revealing rituals and a journey from the Philippines 3,500 years ago.

New evidence in England suggests that Neanderthals lit and controlled fires long before the first recorded use of controlled ...

For roughly 2 billion years of Earth's early history, the atmosphere contained no oxygen, the essential ingredient required ...

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 ...

When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...

New research shows early humans relied on many plant foods. They ground seeds, cooked roots, and used simple tools long ...

The human use of fire, attested by evidence from Africa, goes back around 1.6m years. But, hitherto, the oldest signs of ...

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 ...

According to groundbreaking findings from England, Neanderthals were sparking their own fires 400,000 years ago — hundreds of thousands of years earlier than many anthropologists previously believed.