The ability to make fire on demand has long been seen as a turning point in our evolutionary story. It unlocked benefits like ...

Archaeologists working in eastern England say they have uncovered the earliest known evidence of humans deliberately making ...

At a site called East Farm in England, recent excavations revealed reddened silt, flint handaxes distorted by heat, and fragments of a mineral—iron pyrite—that could have been used to make sparks on ...

Heat can destroy. It can also transform. The precise origins of human glassmaking are lost to history, but archaeologists generally trace the craft back more than 3,500 years to ancient Egypt and ...