"The book has its origins in the Ninth International Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies (CHAGS 9 for short), which was held at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, in September 2003"--Front ...

What makes Watson Brake so valuable for archaeologists is its age. The site has been excavated and researched to estimate the ...

Researchers have learned that the earliest known fortresses in the world were built by Neolithic hunter-gatherers around 6000 B.C. in the taiga of western Siberia. Archaeologists have long been aware ...

A woolly mammoth lay for thousands of years in wet ground near the Danube, its ribs, foot bones, and a nearly 2.5-meter tusk ...

Introduction / Barry Hewlett -- Cultural diversity of African Pygmies / Serge Bahuchet -- Population genetics of Central African Pygmies and non-Pygmies / Paul Verdu -- On Late Holocene population ...

The wooly mammoth from Taimering (Bavaria, Germany), discovered in 2020, was buried in a former Ice Age pond after its death.

In the deep, dark passages of Bàsura Cave in northwestern Italy, an extraordinary discovery has shed new light on the ...

People coming from the north settled South America. The first hunter-gatherers entered the continent from the region of what is Colombia today and then spread out from there. An international research ...

New DNA evidence shows that Europe’s hunter-gatherers and early farmers interacted far more closely than previously thought, with women likely playing a crucial role in spreading farming across ...

Unlike kids in the United States, hunter-gatherer children in the Congo Basin have often learned how to hunt, identify edible plants and care for babies by the tender age of six or seven. This rapid ...

The mammoth, discovered in 2020, was buried in a former Ice Age pond after its death. Pollen findings and radiocarbon dating ...