Explore the archaeology of hunter-gatherers and their ways of life across ancient landscapes.
A new study of the Late Mesolithic cemeteries at Skateholm I and II in southern Sweden has recovered microscopic traces ...
A 5,500-year-old cemetery on Gotland is offering a close look at family life among one of the last hunter-gatherer groups ...
For decades, archaeologists described European prehistory as a sequence of large migrations and rapid genetic change. A new ancient DNA ...
For thousands of years, Indigenous hunters on the North American Great Plains relied on bison for food, tools, and materials. ...
Archaeologists working at the Early Neolithic settlement of Eilsleben in Saxony-Anhalt have uncovered evidence of close contact between Europe’s first ...
New archaeological research places the active hunting of large whales in southern Brazil around 5,000 years ago, well before the ...
A team of archaeologists excavating southern Africa has found the oldest direct evidence of human use of poisoned weapons, extending ...
A newly published study has uncovered the oldest known evidence of human cremation in Africa, extending Africa’s cremation record by ...
A recent genetic study reveals part of the secret of exceptional longevity in Italy and finds that this may lie ...
Early humans were not the single-minded meat hunters often imagined in popular "Paleo" narratives. A new study published in the ...
