Nate Rott
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You don't have to be eating cooked meat or sitting next to a fireplace to understand the benefits that fire would have provided to early humans.
The ability to start fires was a major evolutionary tool that we continue to benefit from today.
But archaeologists have long wondered when that discovery first took place.
The iron pyrite and fire-cracked flint unearthed in a 400,000-year-old hearth in eastern Britain gives us the earliest example yet.
The findings detailed in the journal Nature suggest at least some early humans, likely Neanderthals, had the knowledge to start fires far earlier than previously thought.
You don't have to be eating cooked meat or sitting next to a fireplace to understand the benefits that fire would have provided to early humans.
The ability to start fires was a major evolutionary tool that we continue to benefit from today.
But archaeologists have long wondered when that discovery first took place.
The iron pyrite and firecracked flint unearthed in a 400,000-year-old hearth in eastern Britain gives us the earliest example yet.
The findings detailed in the journal Nature suggest at least some early humans, likely Neanderthals, had the knowledge to start fires far earlier than previously thought.
You don't have to be eating cooked meat or sitting next to a fireplace to understand the benefits that fire would have provided to early humans.
The ability to start fires was a major evolutionary tool that we continue to benefit from today.
But archaeologists have long wondered when that discovery first took place.
The iron pyrite and fire-cracked flint unearthed in a 400,000-year-old hearth in eastern Britain gives us the earliest example yet.
The findings detailed in the journal Nature suggest at least some early humans, likely Neanderthals, had the knowledge to start fires far earlier than previously thought.
There are 2.5 million unique species on Earth that we humans have discovered and categorized, but that number is constantly growing.
A new study published in the journal Science Advances looks at the history of species discovery and how it's changing, and it finds that on average, humans are now discovering 17,000 new species every year.