When piecing together the cultural practices of ancient humans, traditional archaeologists rely on clues from artifacts such ...

Using well-preserved ancient DNA, researchers have created a life-like facial reconstruction of a woman who lived in ...

Researchers revisited a crescent-shaped, mammoth tusk artifact discovered in Poland and estimated it’s around 40,000 years ...

The transition to agriculture and a sedentary lifestyle is one of the great turning points in human history. Yet how this ...

Some of the first hunter-gatherers to arrive in Colombia - and some of the first hunter-gatherers to arrive in all of South America - didn't stick around. They appeared, then disappeared between 6,000 ...

Hunter-gatherers can help us understand the conditions that children may be psychologically adapted to because we lived as hunter-gatherers for 95% of our evolutionary history. And paying greater ...

Japan is known for its fisheries and agriculture. But deep in the mountains, people called Matagi still maintain a ...

Across the globe, hunter-gatherer societies demonstrate a breathtaking array of movement strategies. In Southeast Asia, Bajau women spend hours diving for fish, just as their male counterparts do.