We've known that humans have been harnessing natural fire (e.g. sticks/vegetation set alight by lightening) for over a million years. However, until last week,

We've known that humans have been harnessing natural fire (e.g. sticks/vegetation set alight by lightening) for over a million years. However, until last week, we thought that the earliest point of humans _deliberately creating_ fire – e.g. through flint and tinder – was 50,000 years ago. A new find has dated the first instance of deliberate fire to be 400,000 years ago (probably by early Neanderthals). So I agree - the archaeological evidence and our interpretation of history is spotty at best. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/dec/10/man-made-fire-350000-years-earlier-than-previously-known-after-discovery-in-suffolk https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/dec/10/man-made-fir...