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Archaeologists Discover Earliest Evidence of Fire-Making


Archaeologists have unearthed 400,000-year-old heated sediments and fire-cracked flint handaxes alongside two fragments of pyrite -- a mineral used in later periods to strike sparks with flint -- at Barnham, Suffolk, the United Kingdom.

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