{"id":2937,"date":"2025-12-10T17:40:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T22:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/?p=2937"},"modified":"2025-12-10T17:42:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T22:42:28","slug":"new-origin-date-of-human-fire-making-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/new-origin-date-of-human-fire-making-discovered\/","title":{"rendered":"New origin date of human fire-making discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I think this is fascinating. Archaeologists have found the earliest known instance of human-created fire,  in the village of Barnham in England, which they have determined occurred 400,000 years ago. This pushes the origin of human fire-making back by more than 350,000 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a pretty extensive article, delving into how they propose this site is so old and how they know the evidence of fire is human in origin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/resources\/idt-b9da7a6d-165b-492a-8785-235cd10e2e8e\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/resources\/idt-b9da7a6d-165b-492a-8785-235cd10e2e8e<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think this is fascinating. Archaeologists have found the earliest known instance of human-created fire, in the village of Barnham in England, which they have determined occurred 400,000 years ago. This pushes the origin of human fire-making back by more than 350,000 years. This is a pretty extensive article, delving into how they propose this site is so old and how they know the evidence of fire is human in origin. https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/resources\/idt-b9da7a6d-165b-492a-8785-235cd10e2e8e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,65],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p327ys-Ln","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2939,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions\/2939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}