“A lot of archaeological frameworks on hunter-gatherers, or foragers, centre on hunting and meat-heavy diets – but we are finding that early hunter-gatherers in the Andes were mostly eating plant ...

Research links human arrival on Cyprus to the extinction of dwarf elephants and hippos, shedding light on prehistoric human ...

For the bulk of our existence, we evolved following a hunter-gatherer lifestyle of foraging for food and hunting animals.

Where the Limpopo and Shashe Rivers meet, forming the modern border between Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe, lies a hill ...

Hunting and gathering is humanity's first and most successful ... The final part surveys the complex histories of hunter-gatherers' encounters with colonialism and the state, and their ongoing ...

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Born in London, Cambridge-educated Jonathan Clements was The Wall Street Journal’s personal finance columnist for 20 years ...

Until agriculture was developed around 10,000 years ago, all humans got their food by hunting, gathering, and fishing. As farming emerged, nomadic hunter-gatherers gradually were pushed off prime ...

Recent research by Dr. Mikael Fauvelle and his colleagues, published in the Journal of Maritime Archaeology, proposes that ...

Scientists have unraveled a mystery about the disappearance of dwarf hippos and elephants that once roamed the picturesque ...

The Hadza are one of the last remaining hunter-gatherer tribes in the world ... The BBC's Dan Saladino went to watch them foraging and hunting, and to ask whether their diet holds lessons for ...

Scientists have unravelled a mystery about the disappearance of dwarf hippos and elephants that once roamed the picturesque landscape on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus before palaeolithic humans ...