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

Humans likely harvested their first flames from wildfire. When they learned to make it themselves, it changed everything.

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

Discovery in Suffolk dates back 400,000 years, pushing timeline for controlled fire-making back by at least 360,000 years - ...

For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East ...

New research led by the British Museum has found evidence of the world’s oldest human fire-making activity in Barnham, ...

The Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom (2686–2125 B.C.) produced many lasting artefacts—but little DNA has survived. Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built ...

New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

New evidence suggests that alcohol was a surprisingly big motivator in our monumental transition from hunting and gathering ...

Recent advances in ancient DNA analysis have sparked intriguing discussions about the possibility of non-human entities once ruling the Earth. While such claims challenge the boundaries of ...

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The research reveals that our human ancestors were periodically exposed to lead ...