Blazing a trail

Earliest evidence of humans making fire discovered in SuffolkExcavation of 400,000-year-old pond sediments at Barnham, near Thetford in Suffolk, have revealed the oldest known evidence of early humans (in this case, Neanderthals) making fire. IMAGE: Courtesy of the Pathways to Ancient Britain project and by Jordan MansfieldExcavations at East Farm, Barnham, have uncovered the oldest-known traces of deliberate fire-making – a game-changing step in the human story that we now know took place