[johnlbevan2]

There seems to be an assumption that the skill of creating fire was discovered once. Knowledge gets lost; and over a 250,000 year period it's pretty likely that even something as important as this may be lost a few times / maybe only to some groups at a time. If you prove that one group of Neanderthals didn't make fire that's not the same as proving that no Neanderthals knew how to create fire.

[ddebernardy]

Exactly this. And it's also worth pointing out that before matches were a thing, the main way to start your fire when yours went out was to go to a neighbor's place with some kind of combustible (torch, lantern) or a container to bring back some ember.

[kstenerud]

This was actually the premise for the film "La Guerre de Feu" or "Quest for Fire".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quest_for_Fire_(film)

[iguy]

Which is precisely what the first sentence of TFA discusses.