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The project called for a network of clear-cuts, logging and prescribed fire across a 40,000-acre swath of the Custer Gallatin National Forest.

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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Beth DuFault, University of Portland (THE CONVERSATION) People often see science as a ...

Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of the earliest fire-making, dating back 400,000 years, in Suffolk, England. The mastery of fire was long considered the exclusive hallmark of modern humans, ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The city of Sioux Falls won’t be getting a fire rescue facility in the USD Discovery District in the western part of the city. The majority of the South Dakota Board of ...

The old cliché goes like this: humans mastered fire, and with it, we conquered the world. But a plot twist is emerging from the sediment of history. What if it wasn’t Homo sapiens who figured this out ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Evidence uncovered in a field in Suffolk, England indicates that ...

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 years ago in what’s now Suffolk, England. Based on chemical analysis of the ...