Wikipedia has an article devoted to this topic, if you're interested in these things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_of_fire_by_early_humans# https://en.

Wikipedia has an article devoted to this topic, if you're interested in these things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_of_fire_by_early_humans# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_of_fire_by_early_human... What I find fascinating is humans aren't the first hominids to have controlled fire - in fact, fire had been around long before we arrived on the scene! We've always had fire. In fact, fire was necessary for our evolution.