A heat-shattered handaxe found adjacent to the 400,000-year-old campfire site; (below) a first fragment of iron pyrite found there in 2017. — Jordan Mansfield/Pathways to AncientBritain Project via The New York Times
SOME 400,000 years ago, in what is now eastern England, a group of Neanderthals repeatedly made fire at a watering hole – not just once, but across generations.
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