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Posted on 12/10/2025 6:57:07 PM PST by bitt
Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more than 400,000 years ago.
Neanderthals were the world's first innovators of fire technology, tiny specks of evidence in England suggest. Flecks of pyrite found at a more than 400,000-year-old archaeological site in Suffolk, in eastern England, push back archaeologists' evidence for controlled fire-making and suggest that key human brain developments began far earlier than previously thought.
"We're a species who've used fire to really shape the world around us," study co-author Rob Davis, a Paleolithic archaeologist at the British Museum, said in a news conference on Tuesday (Dec. 9). "The ability to make fire would have been critically important" in human evolution, Davis said, "accelerating evolutionary trends" such as developing larger brains, maintaining larger social groups, and increasing language skills.
Since 2013, Davis and colleagues have been excavating an archaeological site in England called Barnham, which yielded stone tools, burnt sediment and charcoal from 400,000 years ago. In a study published Wednesday (Dec. 10) in the journal Nature, the researchers revealed that the site contained the world's earliest direct evidence of fire-making — and that this fire technology was likely pioneered by Neanderthals.
A big turning point Barnham was first recognized as a Paleolithic human site in the early 1900s due to the presence of stone tools. But recent excavations uncovered evidence of ancient human groups occupying the area more than 415,000 years ago, when Barnham was a small, seasonal watering hole in a woodland depression.
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Ancient branch of man made fire. Film at eleven.... Ok.
The whole premise behind “Quest for Fire” was that Neanderthals couldn’t make fire.
But it probably happened long before.
Homo Erectus for sure and possibly before used fire. No reason Neanderthals wouldn't have done the same.
And then immediately burned all their witches.
Only 400K years ago? I’d swear to have seen reports from the grooming sections of London, they were making fire in the last few years. Certainly looked like them, facial feature and teeth and all!
20,000+ generations ago.
Thanks!
A vid showed up in the suggested vids tonight, but I konked out and missed most of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nlr7f9P_yo
Another blow to the out of africa pablum.
Thanks bitt.
Sacrificial Bonfire - XTC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59SM0tQvVIw
Nonsense. What were these “humans” doing for those 400,000 years? Playing games? With all that time, maybe they could have learned to write, yet we have no written history beyond 6,000 years. Why? Where are all the bodies? That is one hell of a long time to figure out how to procreate. And how was the date determined? It was published in the Journal Nature. Still trying to convince the world of evolution, and many are buying, believing this crap.
And "China was the first..."
“ With all that time, maybe they could have learned to write, yet we have no written history beyond 6,000 years. Why?”
Noah’s flood washed it all away.
The point goes to you my good sir.
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