In this video, we explore the art of basket making using primitive techniques. Witness the process of gathering materials and ...

In this video, I demonstrate the process of making charcoal using only primitive tools and natural materials. This provides ...

A research team at the British Museum, led by Nick Ashton and Rob Davis, reports evidence that ancient humans could make and ...

The Anne Arundel County Fire Department should hire additional staff members and rethink staffing methods to better meet national recommendations, according to a new report. The department is using a ...

At a site called East Farm in England, recent excavations revealed reddened silt, flint handaxes distorted by heat, and fragments of a mineral—iron pyrite—that could have been used to make sparks on ...

LONDON — Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering evidence that deliberate fire-setting took place in what is now ...

Discovery of the first fragment of iron pyrite in 2017, at Barnham, Suffof, England. (Jordan Mansfield/Pathways to Ancient Britain Project via AP) Discovery of the first fragment of iron pyrite in ...

Archaeologists say they have identified the earliest known evidence of humans making fire, dating to about 400,000 years ago. The discovery suggests early Neanderthal groups in what is now eastern ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery moves our... Fire-making materials at 400,000-year-old site are the oldest ...

It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...