Inside a hillside cave, researchers have unearthed a million-year-old ecological time capsule that offers a rare snapshot into a "lost world" long before the arrival of Homo sapiens. The discoveries ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Wonderwerk Cave entrance. Burned fossil bones in Wonderwerk Cave suggest early humans used fire there between 1.07 and 1.79 ...

In Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa, burned bones were found in a dirt layer associated with Homo erectus. The inhabitants probably hadn't mastered fire-making, but researchers say they may have moved ...

Ancient humans already lived in the area of modern-day Israel at least 1.9 million years ago, a new study suggests, pushing back the exodus out of Africa to hundreds of thousands of years earlier than ...

A new study suggests early humans were using fire in South Africa’s Wonderwerk Cave as far back as 1.79 million years ago. Researchers found burned bones deep inside the cave, where natural wildfires ...

The discovery of fire was a major milestone in human evolution, giving our ancestors a way to stay warm, ward off predators, and eventually start cooking food. But exactly when this first happened is ...