Fresh evidence shows Peking Man was able to use fire

New evidence has been found in an archaeological site in Beijing suggesting that the ancestor of modern man was able to use fire more than 600,000 years ago.

The findings were announced on Friday, after archaeologists spent three years excavating the Zhoukoudian fossil site in the western suburbs of the capital.

A fire site, sintering soil, and burned rocks and bones were uncovered at the site, said Gao Xing, research fellow with the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.