🔥🪨🕯️ Long before matches and lighters, someone learned to steal fire from stone. New evidence from England hints that hominins were striking sparks 400,000 years ago, far earlier than thought. Red-baked soil and rogue pyrite suggest flame was coaxed, not borrowed. A rare spark in deep time. #AncientFire https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-humans-were-making-fire-350-000-years-earlier-than-scientists/