The amputation happened when the individual was perhaps 12 years old, the skeleton indicates. Gone is the lower portion of the left leg. And somehow, the individual survived the surgical procedure — a ...

Ancient hunter-gatherer genes may hold the secret to living past 100, according to a new study of Italian centenarians and their DNA.

A hunter-gatherer society in Siberia built one of the oldest fortified settlements 8,000 years ago. The fortress defies expectations because it's one of the oldest found that hunter-gatherers built.

A new study published Wednesday is calling into question one of the oldest stereotypes about the roles of men and women, finding that female members of many of the world's remaining foraging societies ...

The Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society has from the outset covered all aspects of the vast areas named in the title. In part owing to the professional interest of its first editor, the late ...

Short growing seasons limited the possible size of hunter-gatherer societies by forcing people to rely on meat, according to a recent study. After looking at population size for the roughly 300 hunter ...

Research based on the daily movements of people living in a contemporary hunter-gatherer society provides new evidence for links between the gendered division of labor in human societies over the past ...

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 ...