Researchers have generally thought that only prehistoric males hunted—but what if evidence against that idea has been lying ...

Text.: Holocene climate, environmental change, and Neolithic biocultural discontinuity in the Baikal region / Dustin White and Andrew Bush -- Radiocarbon dating of Middle Holocene culture history in ...

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 Neolithic inhabitants of the South Pacific feasted on large, fast-moving marine predators, including multiple species of ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a prehistoric site in South America where hunter-gatherers butchered a now-extinct elephant relative more than 12,000 years ago. A study, published in the open-access ...

Around 30,000 years ago, a hunter-gatherer left behind what may be a "personal toolkit" in what is now the Czech Republic, a new study finds. Researchers uncovered the extraordinary cluster of ...

Part I: A neglected anthropology : hunter-gatherer violence and warfare. Hunter-gatherer conflict : the last bastion of the pacified past? / Mark W. Allen ; Forager warfare and our evolutionary past / ...

A group of Ice Age hunter-gatherers living in central Europe may have adorned their faces with cheek piercings at as early as six-years-old. Although the author of a recent study published in the ...

I've been scouring the web for healthy recipes, and one term I keep coming across is “Paleolithic diet.” I don't understand how a caveman's diet was better than modern man's just because of the ...

During the last Ice Age, a person living along the Rhine River in what is now Europe picked up a piece of rock and etched the image of what appears to be a fish caught in some netting. They wouldn’t ...

A groundbreaking discovery in a cave south of Paris may redefine early human innovation. In the Ségognole 3 cave, scientists have discovered what may be the earliest three-dimensional map in the world ...

Researchers performed acoustic impulse response measurements in front of 37 rock painting site and found that the same vertical rock surfaces that have the painted elks, humans and boats, are also ...