But without evidence of controlled fire use from that long ago, the idea that Homo erectus was the first cook is still up for debate. "There's a lot of people still working on it, and I imagine ...

Archaeological evidence suggests that Homo naledi, a primitive human species with a chimpanzee-like skull, used fires to cook food ... control fire as far back as 1.5 million years ago, this ...

To cook salmon the Yurok way, Jon Luke dug a pit, roughly a foot deep and three to four feet long, and got a blazing fire going — in their case, made with fragrant alder wood, though madrone is ...

Some scientists estimate our early human cousins may have been using fire to cook their food almost 2 million years ago, long before Homo sapiens showed up. And a recent study found what could be ...