prehistoric man

As humans gained the power of fire, they climbed up the food chain. But when did this history-changing event happen?

5,000 years ago, people moved from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age thanks to the advent of metallurgy, separating metals from impurities.

Humans today dominate the world, while our closest relatives, the Neanderthals, are extinct. The surprising answer is not intelligence at all.

A new study suggests that fire is used by humans in Europe later than people have thought for a long time