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When did we first make fire?
Dr Andrew Sorensen at the University of Leiden explains how our ancestors may have made fire around 50,000 years ago. While evidence for fire use dates back much earlier, to around 1.5 million years ago, Andrew explains why evidence of humans using fire is not the same as evidence of making it.
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