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Traces of fire 800,000 years ago

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Our ancestors have made fire for a very long time, but there were only five sites with some evidence that humans used fire some 500,000 years ago. Now studying tools at a sixth site, scientists think to have evidence that fire was used by early humans some 800,000 years ago.

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