Long before anyone in Upper Mesopotamia planted a crop or fired a piece of pottery, groups of hunter-gatherers dragged ...

A hunter-gatherer who lived in Indonesia as early as 25,000 years ago may have regularly sucked on betel nuts to release ...

Storage pits and hearths at a Spanish rock shelter capture the shift from hunting to farming, with layers dated across 1,500 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Primeval caveman wearing animal skin standing in his cave at night, holding torch with fire looking at drawings on the walls at ...

Analytical frames of reference in hunter-gatherer research / Peter Jordan and Vicki Cummings -- Defining hunter-gatherers : Enlightenment, Romantic, and social evolutionary perspectives / Alan Barnard ...

Seafaring hunter-gatherers were accessing remote, small islands such as Malta thousands of years before the arrival of the first farmers, a new international study has found. The research team—led by ...

Hunter-gatherers who lived more than 2,000 years ago near the top of the world appear to have run ironworking operations as advanced as those of farming societies far to the south. Excavations in what ...

Everyone knows the number. Eight hours. It sits on wellness dashboards, on pediatric handouts, on the label of the melatonin bottle in the medicine cabinet. A peer-reviewed narrative review published ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists excavate inside and outside Little Muck Shelter, in the Mapungubwe National Park, South Africa. Photo: Tim Forssman ...

Using radiocarbon dating, researchers have a glimpse into what life may have looked like for the hunter-gatherer tribes around Stonehenge. In the late 1950s, a Dutch archeologist visited Stonehenge, ...

As regular readers of this blog know, I have in previous posts commented on hunter-gatherers' playfulness; their playful religious practices; their playful approach toward productive work; their ...