But researchers have found that women in foraging societies were often the ones ... notion of strictly gendered roles in so-called hunter-gatherer communities from prehistory to the present ...

Many hunter-gatherer cultures have disappeared over the millennia, but some of the societies mentioned in the paper include the Tiwi people of Australia, the Hadza of northern Tanzania ...

Anthropologists call societies that do not have ranks egalitarian ... These kinds of groups have been called hunter-gatherers, but a more accurate name might be foragers: they make their living ...

"Perhaps complex social boundaries and identities persisted, even as most of our species moved toward agricultural societies," she said. One aspect of the complexity of hunter-gatherer social ...

Scientists have reconstructed the face of a woman who lived about 10,500 years ago in present-day Belgium, offering new insights into the diversity and ...

Credit: Huw Groucutt The study’s authors believe their findings can help kick off thoughtful reexaminations of Europe’s last hunter-gatherer societies, as well as their influence on the ...

Anthropologists call societies that do not have ranks egalitarian ... These kinds of groups have been called hunter-gatherers, but a more accurate name might be foragers: they make their living by ...