The natural human preference to live with or near kin is particularly strong among hunter-gatherers, but gender equality may allow these communities to include large percentages of genetically ...

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

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

Using novel research techniques, we found evidence that our Late Stone Age hunter-gatherer ancestors in north Africa had a ...

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 ...

From eating more meat to walking 20,000 steps a day, our ancestors can teach us a lot about getting a better night’s sleep ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Eat meat. That's the dietary advice given by a team of scientists who examined the dietary role of fat in a study that combined nutritional analysis with anthropologic research ...

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 ...

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 ...

A five-week programme of archaeological digs has uncovered small pieces of stone that give clues about Dartmoor's hunter-gatherer past. The pieces could help tell us more about those who lived in ...