Environment ❯ Natural Resources ❯ Minerals

Pyrite

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Oldest Confirmed Human Fire-Making Found at 400,000-Year-Old UK Site

Analyses with pyrite fragments indicate intentional, repeated hearth use at Barnham by likely early Neanderthals.