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 ...

Along a quiet bend of the Farmington River in Connecticut, an excavation has peeled back the soil to reveal a Native American camp that predates the pyramids, Stonehenge, and most of the world’s known ...

A 400,000-year-old site excavated in England reveals signs of deliberate fires made using the mineral iron pyrite to produce sparks. Ségolène Vandevelde is at the Centre for Mineral Resource Studies ...