Whether for cooking, heating, as a light source or for making tools -- it is assumed that fire was essential for the survival of people in the Ice Age. However, it is puzzling that hardly any well ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. To make it out of the last ice age alive, our ancestors needed a special set of skills. One of which was harnessing the power of ...

Whether for cooking, heating, as a light source or for making tools—it is assumed that fire was essential for the survival of people in the Ice Age. However, it is puzzling that hardly any well ...

Hominids have been using fire for at least a million years — but scientists have found that human fire-wielding skills during our planet's last great Ice Age became so advanced that they would have ...

Scholars generally agree that fire was crucial to human survival during the most recent Ice Age—yet in Europe, there is surprisingly little evidence of hearths from its coldest years ...

Grab some wood from the corner store, set it up in your backyard fire pit, and strike a match. But how did our Ice Age ancestors do it? There actually isn’t much in the archaeological record to help ...

(Image Credit: Dr Christopher Spencer, Queen's University, Canada) Though the collapse of the Roman Empire can be tied to a variety of factors, recent research has suggested that an ice age began on ...

A trio of researchers has found evidence of the impact of the Late Antique Little Ice Age on Iceland almost 1,500 years ago. In their paper published in the journal Geology, Christopher Spencer ...

Previous analysis indicates that Earth endured a roughly 200–300 year long ice age starting around 540 CE. Scientists believe that powerful volcanic eruptions that hurled massive amounts of ash ...

More than 70 objects from the British Museum will go on show in an Ice Age exhibition due to launch later this year in Bradford as part of the 2025 UK City of Culture celebrations. The exhibition ...

Sophisticated Pyrotechnology in the Ice Age: This Is How Humans Made Fire Tens of Thousands of Years Ago Apr. 14, 2025 — Whether for cooking, heating, as a light source or for making tools -- it ...