Wonderwerk is one of the earliest sites of evidence for early
hominin use of fire — dating back at least around 1 to 1.1 - million years ago.
Not exact matches
One
of the earliest sites with evidence
of persistent
fire use is Qesem Cave in Israel, which
hominins started
using about 400,000 years ago.
Many
of them had been baked, he says — probably because they were discarded after
use and then heated when the
hominins set
fires on the ground nearby.
Natural light pierces the entrance
of Wonderwerk Cave, home to evidence that
hominins used fire 1.1 million years ago and possibly even earlier.