International team of leading Israeli universities finds oldest evidence of the controlled use of fire to cook food at Gesher Benot Ya’aqob
The heat is on: Weizmann Institute scientists uncover traces of fire, from Evron Quarry, dating back at least 800,000 years; the study is published on PNAS
Anatomically modern humans at the Klasies River Cave, in South Africa’s southern Cape, were roasting and eating plant starch
