“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 ...

The solution may be to step back in time. For the bulk of our existence, we evolved following a hunter-gatherer lifestyle of foraging for food and hunting animals. Today, only a few hunter-gatherer ...

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

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

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

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Ancient Scandinavians may have used seal skin boats for hunting, trade, and seafaring journeys between islands.

In the vast expanse of a sun-baked savanna, a story unfolds. It's written not in words, but in subtle signs left behind by ...

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 ...

The knee has undergone major changes to its size and shape, not only to allow early humans to walk upright, but also to ...