“At first, early humans were fire foragers, meaning they knew fire could be beneficial. When they encountered it on the landscape, they would watch or follow it,” Gowlett says. After encountering a ...

The discovery of fire is one of humanity’s most significant advancements, but its origin remains a subject of debate. While ...

Early humans had begun to make their first permanent mark on the landscape. Many people around the world still rely on fire for warmth, cooking, ritual and socializing – including the research ...

A new study reveals that humans were extensively using fire to modify landscapes as far back as 50,000 years ago. That’s at ...

New discovery shows early humans were using fire at least 900,000 years ago, leading experts to suggest that that ability to cook food led to major otherwise inexplicable changes in human gut ...

University of Connecticut. (2019, October 25). New study on early human fire acquisition squelches debate. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 15, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2019 / 10 ...

Dr. Ben-Dor adds, "For early humans, fire use was not a given, and at most archaeological sites dated earlier than 400,000 years ago, there is no evidence of the use of fire.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jessica Thompson, Yale University; David K. Wright, University of Oslo, and Sarah I… ...

Early humans had begun to make their first permanent mark on the landscape. Fire use is a technology that stretches back at least a million years. Using it in such a transformative way is human ...