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Story summary
- Scientists in Barnham, England report deliberate fire-making dating to roughly 400,000 years ago, published in Nature.
- The finding significantly predates the previous earliest fire-making, around 50,000 years ago in France.
- Evidence includes flint hand axes, baked clay, and iron pyrite, indicating intentional fire creation and repeated burning above 1,292°F.
- This discovery contributes to evidence of increasing behavioral complexity in early humans.
