In Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa, burned bones were found in a dirt layer associated with Homo erectus. The inhabitants ...

Fire leaves behind a simple story when it is fresh. Ash settles, bones blacken, wood chars. Over a million years later, that ...

Fire was foundational to human evolution—cooking food over a fire eased digestion in early humans and made more energy ...

A new study suggests early humans were using fire in South Africa’s Wonderwerk Cave as far back as 1.79 million years ago. Researchers found burned bones deep inside the cave, where natural wildfires ...

A new study has uncovered evidence that early human ancestors were using fire in South Africa's Wonderwerk Cave between 1.07 and 1.79 million years ago, extending the chronology of one of the earliest ...