Earliest evidence of fire making in Europe found
Charred bone, heat-rippled stone in Spanish cave date back 800,000 years

FIRE STARTERS Discoveries in a Spanish cave indicate a prehuman species set small blazes there around 800,000 years ago, the earliest evidence for fire making in Europe.
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