Humans made fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought | BBC News

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Humans made fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought | BBC News

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Welcome back to Verified Live. Now to a fascinating new story because researchers at the British and National History Museums have uncovered the earliest evidence of humans creating fire. It happened more than 400,000 years ago at an ancient human settlement at Barnum Forest near Theford in East Anglia. That is about 350,000 years earlier than the ... Read More

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