Earliest known evidence of human fire-making dating back 400,000 years is discovered in the UK

[Warpy]

11. I have an acquaintance of an acquaintance of an acquaintance

who is iin Africa looking for the same things, concentrating on places where natural fire was least likely to occur. She's trying to push it back millionds of years, all the way back to Australopithecus. I don't know if she'll find traces from that deep in time, but I think it highly likely that A. Afarensis most likely used harvested fire and knew how to keep it going, at the very least.

I'mnot a bit surprised they found this in the UK, there have been several waves of hominid occupation between severe climate shifts that buried the islands in ice. H. Heidelbergensis and the later Neanderthals were well known to use fire and to cook their food.

Love these deep time discoveries.