Stone Age Europeans may have huddled around campfires at night to watch simple animations created when firelight danced across artwork etched on flat rocks. The ancient paintings preserved on the ...

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Scientists have discovered Stone Age blacksmiths were using fire to make tools at least 72,000 years ago Credit: Photo: HULTON Just as raising temperature can change the properties of iron and ...

Harriet, winner in the 12 years and over category, produced a design made from "cheap ... invited to visit their local fire stations The winners were: Age 12 and over winner: Harriet from Ely ...

As a new study published in the journal Science Advances suggests, Stone Age people in southeastern Africa used fire to intentionally transform the landscape around Lake Malawi some 85,000 years ago.

The sites we are excavating date to a time ranging from about 315,000 to 30,000 years ago known as the Middle Stone Age. This was also ... characterized by bushy, fire-tolerant open woodlands ...