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The moment the earliest known man-made fire was uncovered

The moment the earliest known man-made fire was uncovered - BBC News - Featured Image

The moment the earliest known man-made fire was uncovered - BBC News

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Archaeologists in the UK have discovered the world's oldest evidence of humans lighting fires, dating back 400,000 years. The discovery at Barnham in Suffolk includes a flint lighter and heated earth, indicating that early humans deliberately created fire. This pushes back the timeline of human fire-making by over 350,000 years and suggests that early Neanderthals were the ones making these fires.

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