@MicroWave It's important to note that they are not talking about humans as we understand the term generally, Homo sapiens, but genus Homo, which started back in the H.habilis days.

Read this at lunch today! Very convincing evidence.

Rob Davis, a Paleolithic archaeologist at the British Museum, said the combination of high temperatures, controlled burning and pyrite fragments shows “how they were actually making the fire and the fact they were making it.”

Iron pyrite does not occur naturally at Barnham. Its presence suggests the people who lived there deliberately collected it because they understood its properties and could use it to ignite tinder.

I’m way more interested that they were apparently also making thumb tacks.

Yeah, but how long have they been spitting hot fire?

scientists were wrong, say scientists