This is the oldest evidence of people starting fires
We didn’t start the fire. ❲Neanderthals did, at least 400,000 years ago.❳…
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/12/this-is-the-oldest-evidence-of-people-starting-fires/#archaeology #firestarting #hominins #making-fire #neanderthals #science
This is the oldest evidence of people starting fires We didn’t start the fire. ❲Neanderthals did, at least 400,000 years ago.❳… https://s.faithcollapsing.com/fu001#archaeology #firestarting #hominins #making-fire #neanderthals #science
Endoscopy finds Neanderthal noses not as adapted to the cold as expected https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/dec/11/endoscopy-neanderthal-noses-not-as-adapted-to-the-cold #Neanderthals #Environment #Science
🔥🏛️ A #BritishMuseum team found heated clay, heat-damaged tools, and iron pyrite fragments at the #Barnham site in #Suffolk, providing the earliest known evidence of controlled fire-making at 400,000 years ago.
The #discovery suggests early #Neanderthals understood the properties of flint, pyrite, and tinder to create sparks, fundamentally changing our timeline of human technological development.
👉 https://gizmodo.com/this-400000-year-old-campfire-could-rewrite-human-history-2000697601
#archaeology #evolution #paleolithic #prehistoric #anthropology #nature #science
New evidence from a site in eastern England suggests early Neanderthals were striking pyrite against flint to make fire 400,000 years ago. The find pushes intentional fire-making far deeper into the past. #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Neanderthals #Paleolithic @Nature https://www.anthropology.net/p/sparks-in-the-mud-how-neanderthals
Oldest evidence of people starting #fires
Heat-reddened clay, #fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where #Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000ya in #Suffolk, #England.
Based on chemical analysis of sediment at site, along with the telltale presence of pyrite, a mineral not naturally found nearby but very handy for striking sparks with flint, British Museum #archaeologist Rob Davis and colleagues say Neanderthals probably started fire themselves.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/12/this-is-the-oldest-evidence-of-people-starting-fires/
Surprise, it's fire! New study pushing the dates for fire manufacture (not just use) back as early as 400,000 years ago. It's producers? Neanderthals (most likely)! While we know fire has a very deep history of use, it takes serious smarts to learn how to make it. Very little evidence for forms of manufacture are yet known. Super cool news for fire enthusiasts!
#fire #archaeology #ecology #neanderthals
400,000 years ago, early #Neanderthals gathered around a pit in what’s now a #Suffolk forest to spark the oldest known #fire created by human hands.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-b9da7a6d-165b-492a-8785-235cd10e2e8e #science #anthropology #archaeology #archeology
#Neanderthals were lighting fires deliberately 400,000 years ago. #humanity https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/dec/10/man-made-fire-350000-years-earlier-than-previously-known-after-discovery-in-suffolk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Were British Neanderthals the first to discover fire? 😉
This is the oldest evidence of people starting fires https://arstechni.ca/xyDo #firestarting #Neanderthals #Archaeology #makingfire #hominins #Science #science
Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more than 400,000 years ago.
Haha, awesome. There's been this looong debate over why #Neanderthals had such wide noses. New paper demonstrates that they had normal nose width compared to other hominids AND to modern humans! Only not to modern Europeans! 😄
Via the Common Descent Podcast.
Neanderthal women and children were killed and consumed at Goyet 45,000 years ago, study reveals
A new study conducted on human remains from the Troisième Caverne of Goyet in Belgium indicates that a small group of non-local Neanderthals, mostly adult or adolescent women, and two younger individuals, were killed and consumed between 41,000 and 45,000 years ago...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/11/neanderthals-were-consumed-45000-years-ago/
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It's Book Quote Wednesday and the word is RUN. Two technologically advanced hereditary enemies meet on neutral territory: England in 1645. #bookqw #englishcivilwar #neanderthals https://www.benjeapes.com/index.php/novels/new-world-order/
Hear me read a longer extract at benjeapes.substack.com.
👁️🌌 Looking at distant objects means observing the past, spanning from #Uranus (2 hours 40 minutes away) to the Triangulum #galaxy (2.73 million light-years). This #video contextualizes these distances by tying them to human #history – Deneb’s light left 2,615 years ago, Messier 3 shows #Earth when #Neanderthals went extinct, and Triangulum predates #humans entirely.
👉 https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/how-far-back-in-time-can-we-see-with-our-naked-eye
#astronomy #cosmology #stars #galaxies #STEM #science #universe #education
Hidden Neanderthal skull reveals unexpected details about ancient nasal anatomy and climate adaptation
A Neanderthal skeleton, hidden deep in a limestone cave in southern Italy, has revealed a part of the human evolutionary story that scientists had long debated but had never directly observed...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/11/neanderthal-skull-reveals-details-about-nasal-anatomy/
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#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #iceage #neanderthal #humanevolution #Neanderthals #anthropology
New research on the Goyet Neanderthals reveals deliberate targeting of small-bodied females and juveniles in a violent case of Late Pleistocene exocannibalism. A haunting glimpse of conflict among the last Neanderthals. #Anthropology #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Neanderthals https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-quiet-bones-at-goyet
💋🐵 Researchers from the University of #Oxford analyzed kissing across multiple species to create an evolutionary family tree. Their study found that mouth-on-mouth contact likely originated in large #apes over 21 million years ago, with evidence that #Neanderthals and modern #humans also kissed and may have even kissed each other.
👉 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr43gq61g2qo
#evolution #primates #anthropology #dna #chimpanzees #bonobos #science #biology
Kissing isn’t just human—it likely began 21 million years ago with our ape ancestors and even Neanderthals! https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/ever-wondered-when-the-first-kiss-happened-scientists-say-21-million-years-ago-j884ot6q?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Evolution #KissingHistory #Neanderthals #Primates #FunScience
