The presence of pyrite was an unmistakable sign. Striking flint against pyrite nodules creates sparks, and which can be used to start fire. This pushes back the earliest known controlled use of fire ...

Roebrokes noted that later Neanderthal sites, dated to around 50,000 years ago, featured flint tools that showed traces of wear that indicated they’d been struck by pyrite to make sparks — a “smoking ...

An older fire helmet worn by the Greenwood Fire Department, part of “Behind the Badge: Johnson County’s First Responders” opening Thursday at the Johnson County Museum of History. The exhibit looks at ...

Learn more about the creation of fire, and how new artifacts show that fire was used tens of thousands of years earlier than ...

Increasing frequent and intense fires are shaping how species change, according to a paper published last year in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution. While previous research tended to focus on ...