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1 day ago

Fire-making materials at 400,000-year-old site are the oldest evidence of humans making fire

Early humans made and ignited fire 400,000 years ago in eastern Britain using pyrite and flint, extending controlled-fire evidence by about 350,000 years.
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fromMail Online
3 months ago

Scientists BAFFLED by skull in cave that's not human or Neanderthal

Petralona cranium in Greece is at least 277,000 years old, placing it in the later Middle Pleistocene and outside Homo sapiens or Neanderthals.
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