Long before the first campfire was lit, early humans may have started as fire foragers, observing naturally occurring blazes and harnessing them for their own needs.

Humans Did Not Originally Use Fire For Cooking Until Much Later, Claims New Study Fire played a massive role in the development of human society as well as in the physiology of modern humans. For a ...

Turns out, early humans preferred smoked meat to cooked meat. Or they might have, according to a new theory from researchers at Tel Aviv University. Published in a paper in Frontiers in Nutrition, the ...

If human fire management altered atmospheric carbon levels tens of thousands of years ago, current climate models may underestimate the historical baseline of human–environment interactions.

Ancient sediment reveals humans began systematically using fire 50,000 years ago, reshaping global climate patterns.

Los Angeles firefighters discovered human remains while putting out a brush fire burning near Chatsworth Tuesday evening. Fire crews had initially responded around 1:30 p.m. to 11160 N. De Soto Ave… ...

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 fire. However, not many well-preserved fireplaces dating back to ...

Embedded within the fire records is not only information about natural wildfires, but also the way that humans influenced fire regimes.

When did humans first roast food over a fire? Archaeology and biology can shed light on this mystery.

State Police are investigating after discovering human remains in a storage unit after a fire broke out at a storage facility in Richmondville on Friday.

A fire burned through three parked vehicles and a two-story residence Thursday afternoon and after the flames were extinguished, firefighters discovered a man's body inside one of the blackened cars.