Humans Did Not Originally Use Fire For Cooking Until Much Later, Claims New Study Fire played a massive role in the ...

Homo erectus, one of our ancestors in the line of human evolution, existed for approximately 1.8 million years. They were the ...

Homo erectus was in the news over 2018 thanks to new discoveries in the Philippines and China, ... being the first species to use fire and may have been the first to live in hunter-gather groups.

Flame-bearing Prometheus may have visited humans earlier than we thought. An analysis of charred bones and plant ash in sediment from a South African cave suggests that Homo erectus was wielding ...

Francesco Berna of Boston University and a multinational team of researchers have uncovered evidence that Homo erectus was using fire about one million years ago at Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa.

Fire history insights: Molecular analysis of hydrocarbons in the sediment provides evidence of repeated wildfires, indicating that Homo erectus likely experienced and adapted to frequent ...

The earliest evidence of cooking has been found at an archaeological site in what’s now Israel. The meal that featured a 6.5-foot-long fish occurred 780,000 years ago.