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 ...

The Khoikhoi are among the oldest continuous cultures on Earth. Their hunter-gatherer lifestyle preserves patterns of human living that predate agriculture and cities. They adapted to South Africa’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The arms of the Dibouka / Marion McCreedy -- The power of weakness / Henry S. Sharp -- Territoriality and land use among the Akulmiut of western Alaska / Elizabeth F. Andrews -- Nature and culture on ...

What happens when you ask ancient wisdom keepers the deepest questions about life, happiness, death, and the modern world? We sat down with real hunter-gatherers and asked them everything from "What ...

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 ...

The cave of Taforalt in Morocco is thought to be one of the oldest and largest human cemeteries in northern Africa, holding the final resting place of people from tens of thousands of years ago.