Study: Our ancestors used fire a million years ago
Monday, April 2, 2012 - 14:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
NEW YORK (AP) -- When did our ancestors first use fire? That's been a long-running debate, and now a new study concludes the earliest firm evidence comes from about 1 million years ago in a South African cave....
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