Ice Age Mystery: New Research Reveals How Humans Made Fire Tens of Thousands of Years Ago

Ice Age Mystery: New Research Reveals How Humans Made Fire Tens of Thousands of Years Ago

Differences between the fireplaces suggest a clever and intentional use. Whether it was used for cooking, heating, lighting, or making tools, fire is widely believed to have been essential for human survival during the Ice Age. Yet, it remains a mystery why so little well-preserved evidence of fireplaces has been found from the coldest phase [...]

Ice Age Humans Were Skilled Firebenders, Scientists Find

Hominids have been using fire for at least a million years — but scientists have found that human fire-wielding skills during our planet's last great Ice Age became so advanced that they would have made Bobby Flay proud. A group of archaeologists from across Europe has found, per a new study in the journal Geoarchaeology, that tens of thousands of years ago, Homo sapiens — better known as modern humans — figured out how to make fires that burned…