A new method that detects whether bones have been burned reveals Homo erectus brought fires into caves far earlier than previous evidence had suggested

Burnt animal bones discovered deep inside South Africa's Wonderwerk Cave may represent the oldest known evidence of human fire use. Dating back as far as 1.8 million years, the…

Archäologen haben winzige, angebrannte Knochen von Eulen in Südafrika mit einer neuen Methode untersucht. Sie gehen nun davon aus, dass schon der Homo erectus mit Feuer hantierte.