Academic Research Institute
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Early humans struck pyrite against flint to spark fires in a Suffolk field 400,000 years ago—350,000 years before the previous oldest evidence. British Museum archaeologists found two pyrite fragments near a hearth littered with fire-cracked hand axes and sediment burned to 700°C, evidence that early Neanderthals made fire.
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