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By analyzing flint tools, researchers find new evidence of an 800,000-year-old fire in northern Israel

A group of scientists are applying new methods to seek out when and where the earliest fire use was. And they have come up with some game-changing results.

AI helps researchers better understand complexity of ancient chemical data from stone tools

AI is pioneering a new field of data-driven archeology that may help answer some of the great mysteries from the dawn of humanity.

Mastering fire cleared the way into whole new worlds for early humans – from accessing more nutrients through cooking (fueling an increase in brain size), to making the dark hours useful, and surviving migrations into harsher climates.

Weizmann researchers use AI tech to analyze non-visual clues from 800,000 years ago.

Scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have discovered burnt stone tools and animal tusks at the site of a million-year-old campfire.

Researchers have found a million-year-old site where fire burned in northwestern Israel using AI technology.

Israel scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science, using an advanced, innovative method they developed to detect nonvisual traces of fire, have seen the usage of fire at least 800,000 years ago, one of the earliest known pieces of evidence for the use of fire. The newly developed technique may push toward a more scientific,…

Researchers from the University of Toronto, the Weizmann Institute of Science and Hebrew University have identified new evidence of the use of fire by ancient humans at least 800,000 years ago at a site in western Israel.