Study finds humans were making fire 400,000 years ago, far earlier than once thought

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Study finds humans were making fire 400,000 years ago, far earlier than once thought

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news@lemmings.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

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

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