Mike Pitts (@pittsmike.bsky.social)

World’s oldest fireplaces – in Suffolk After decades of searching, archaeologists have finally been able to argue convincingly that early humans made, not just used, fire, 400,000 years ago, long before Homo sapiens had evolved. This is a big discovery. The evidence comes from Barnham in Suffolk,…

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World’s oldest fireplaces – in Suffolk After decades of searching, archaeologists have finally been able to argue convincingly that early humans made, not just used, fire, 400,000 years ago, long before Homo sapiens had evolved. This is a big discovery. The evidence comes from Barnham in Suffolk, in eastern England, where many important early sites have been investigated. It consists of heated sediments, fire-cracked flint including handaxes, and two iron pyrite fragments (thought to have been brought in from elsewhere) for making the all-important sparks, all in the same area in one part of the site. https://mikepitts.wordpress.com/2025/12/10/worlds-oldest-fireplaces-in-suffolk/