Nate Rott
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But for now, they say Earth continues to be a poorly known planet.
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.