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Humans may have learned to use fire nearly 800,000 years earlier than we thought, South African cave suggests

The first humans to use fire probably didn’t start it themselves. They may have simply stolen it from the landscape, probably ...

Burnt bones from Wonderwerk Cave suggest early humans used fire deep inside caves up to 1.8 million years ago

Burnt animal bones discovered deep inside South Africa's Wonderwerk Cave may represent the oldest known evidence of human ...
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Park official says Yosemite wildfire considered 'human-start fire'

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — National park officials in California believe that a wildfire that's been burning for a week in Yosemite National Park may have been caused by humans. The wildfire ...