July 9, 2026
New Research Says Humans Discovered Fire 350,000 Years Earlier Than Previously Thought
For decades, the earliest hard evidence that humans could make fire dated back only 50,000 years, to a site in northern France. But new evidence from the UK suggests the origin of fire-making should be pushed back by 350,000 years, to roughly 400,000 years ago. The timeline for human advancement is greatly defined by the discovery of fire.
