Jens Notroff

Now this is cool. Or rather hot. Well, you know what I mean. 😉

With fire-cracked #flint handaxes alongside two fragments of iron #pyrite, new research at Barnham, UK, seems to suggest deliberate #fire making … 400,000 years ago!

🔥R. Davis et al. in @nature 🔓 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09855-6#Sec20

Earliest evidence of making fire - Nature

Baked sediment, heat-shattered artefacts and introduced pyrite in a 400,000-year-old Palaeolithic occupation site in Suffolk, UK provide evidence of intentional fire-making, marking a pivotal moment in human development.

Nature
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