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

6mon 8d ago by lemmy.nz/u/throws_lemy in anthropology@mander.xyz from abcnews.go.com

humans 50k years ago: we didn't start the fire

And also humans 500k years ago: we didn't start the fire either

It was always burning

since the world's been turning

Chris Stringer, a human evolution specialist at the Natural History Museum, said fossils from Britain and Spain suggest the inhabitants of Barnham were early Neanderthals whose cranial features and DNA point to growing cognitive and technological sophistication.

Neat!

Idont know much about those questions. But I can feel your passion from here and it's energizing!

And they didn’t even need a volleyball to help them