400,000-year-old Neanderthal campfire traces found in UK

December 11, 2025

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Researchers excavating an ancient Neanderthal site in southern England found evidence not just of a hearth, but of its inhabitants bringing iron pyrite to the area specifically to enable them to light fires.

Archaeologists wrote in the journal Nature this week that they have unearthed the oldest-known evidence of deliberate fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk. The hearth was discovered in Barnham in the UK, near a buried si... [3231 chars]

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