The Isle of Skye is the largest and northernmost of the major islands in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. And here, ...

Plummeting temperatures forced some human populations to adapt to the new conditions thousands of years ago, but the changes ...

A major study using data from more than a thousand archaeological sites examines the transition from primitive egalitarianism ...

A fine mist accompanies the clan as the sun rises and they begin their journey. There are 12 people in total, some of them ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Evidence discovered in a cave on Malta indicates hunter-gatherers visited the picturesque Mediterranean island long before they ...

Hunter-gatherers were crossing at least 100 km of open water to reach the Mediterranean island of Malta 8,500 years ago, a thousand years before the arrival of the first farmers. Credit: Daniel Clarke ...

Although the archaeological record confirms that hunter-gatherers in Europe built fires throughout the Upper Paleolithic period (45,000 to 10,000 years ago), there is a roughly 7,500-year gap that ...

Differences between the fireplaces suggest a clever and intentional use. Whether it was used for cooking, heating, lighting, ...

A mysterious group of prehistoric hunter-gatherers who once inhabited the southern Texas coast may have created music in a hauntingly unconventional way—by transforming human bones into instruments.