Sitting around a fire is surely one of the outdoors’ greatest simple pleasures. Living on the coast, I enjoy driftwood ...

Expert DIYer April Wilkerson builds a custom steel fire pit for durable outdoor use and entertaining.

The ability to make fire on demand has long been seen as a turning point in our evolutionary story. It unlocked benefits like ...

Starting a fire led to advancements such as cooking, which unlocked nutrients that improved the size and cognition of the ...

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After a first patio attempt didn’t hold up, this project shows how to rebuild it the right way using pea gravel and a binder that locks everything in place. The result is a solid, clean-looking patio ...

Fragments of iron pyrite, a rock that can be used with flint to make sparks, were found by a 400,000-year-old hearth in eastern Britain. (Jordan Mansfield | Courtesy Pathways to Ancient Britain ...

LONDON (AP) — Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering evidence that deliberate fire-setting took place in what is ...

LONDON (AP) — Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering evidence that deliberate fire-setting took place in what is ...

Evidence of a hearth dating to about 415,000 years ago Researchers think that Neanderthals were responsible Discovery made near the village of Barnham in Suffolk Dec 10 (Reuters) - Scientists have ...

Four hundred thousand years ago, near a water hole on grasslands bordering a forest in what is now southern England, a group of Neandertals struck chunks of iron pyrite against flint to create sparks, ...

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