A recent study published by Dr. Shirad Galmor and colleagues in Environmental Archaeology examined the role played by foxes ...

The Hadzabe of Tanzania, untouched by modern life, still thrive as one of the world's few remaining hunter-gatherer ...

Around this time, hunter–gatherer societies in the Levant were transitioning to a farmer lifestyle. This transition is called the Neolithic Revolution. Early signs of change had already been ...

Ultra-processed foods could leave children with buck teeth, researchers have warned ...

Archeologists have decoded the markings on 20,000-year-old cave paintings created by Ice Age hunter-gatherers. The results show that early humans used writing to convey information far earlier ...

Cavemen did more things right than you might think. After all, they discovered fire and invented the wheel, points out Merijn ...

More than 3 decades ago, Kevin Varner spent a semester studying in Scotland. What no one could know at the time is that the visit would ultimately lead to Columbia history. Varner is the founder ...

As technology accelerates progress, a paradox emerges: digital nomadism is unraveling humanity back to its hunter-gatherer ...

Archaeologists in the Czech town have discovered a rare site dating back to the Middle Paleolithic period around 126,000 ...

‘It is not unusual to find many stone artefacts of hunter-gatherers out in the open, but here was a situation which we had never heard about before. They were in situ, in their original context.

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