Neanderthals may have been fire starters 400,000 years ago

History Books Torched: Neanderthals May Have Beat Us To Fire By Hundreds Of Thousands Of Years

Sometimes, when I'm just sitting around doing nothing in like a waiting room or something, my mind wanders. Pretty frequently, I start thinking about the first person to do things. And I don't mean fly or cram two dozen cigarettes in their mouth, I mean who was the first person to look at a lobster and say, "Y'know what? I bet its ass is mighty tasty. Maybe dunk it in a little butter… once we discover butter."And they were right!But the granddad…

Neanderthals may have been fire starters 400,000 years ago

Archaeologists have uncovered the earliest-known evidence of deliberately lit campfires at a site in the UK dated to be 400,000 years old.