For decades, scientists have believed that early humans had a division of labor: Men generally did the hunting and women did the gathering. And this view hasn't been limited to academics. It's often ...

Hunter-gatherers took shelter from the ice age in Southwestern Europe, but were replaced on the Italian peninsula according to two new studies, published in Nature and Nature Ecology & Evolution today ...

Long before farming societies emerged in North America, hunter-gatherers along the Ouachita River constructed one of the continent’s oldest mound complexes. Watson Brake consists of eleven earthen ...

Researchers scrutinized the genomes of hundreds of Ice Age hunter-gatherers from across Eurasia and found that many people stayed in southern Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum, the coldest part ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

A new study is shedding light on the violent history of Scandinavia which saw multiple waves of mass murder across Denmark in just a thousand years. A team of international researchers analyzed DNA ...

The International Meeting "The Chinchorro Culture from a Comparative Perspective", took place in Arica, Chile, 5-8 January, 2010. As a result of this meeting the World Heritage Centre is preparing a ...

Ancient DNA explains why some people live to be over 100 - Hunter-gatherer genes likely favoured during the last Ice Age ...

Finnish prehistoric rock paintings (5000–1500 BCE) on the cliffs rising directly from the lakes are acoustically special environments. When the lake levels have remained unchanged, these extremely ...

Anthropologists who have trekked to isolated regions of the world to observe hunter-gatherer societies—whether in Africa, Asia, South America or elsewhere—have consistently been impressed by the ...

Researchers have uncovered new insights about life in the Stone Age thanks to Vittrup Man, the name given to the bones of a hunter-gatherer found in a Danish bog. Thousands of well-preserved human ...