Archaeologists from the Field Museum unearthed thousands of ancient stone tools in a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, revealing sophisticated fabrication techniques ...

Stone tools crafted by ancient humans between 24,000 and 12,000 years ago that were recovered from coastal South Africa's ...

Hominids have been using fire for at a million years — but scientists have found that humans were grilling down during the ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered ... Earth was nearing the end of the last major ice age. Since so much of Earth's water was frozen ...

Differences between the fireplaces suggest a clever and intentional use. Whether it was used for cooking, heating, lighting, ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. To make it out of the last ice age alive, our ancestors needed a special set of skills. One of which was harnessing the power of ...

Whether for cooking, heating, as a light source or for making tools—it is assumed that fire was essential for the survival of people in the Ice Age. However, it is puzzling that hardly any well ...

The region that is now the coast of South Africa was several miles inland ... She added, "People living around the last ice age were very similar to people today." Accessing the caves was a ...