Explore the archaeology of hunter-gatherers and their ways of life across ancient landscapes.
Early humans were not the single-minded meat hunters often imagined in popular "Paleo" narratives. A new study published in the ...
Across the plains of what is now Ukraine, long before agriculture had revolutionized human life, groups of hunter-gatherers encountered winters ...
A team of archaeologists working high on the Aurlandsfjellet mountain plateau in Vestland County, Norway, has made a fantastic discovery: ...
Researchers for generations have tried to understand why Australia's Ice Age giants — enormous kangaroos, car-sized wombat-like creatures, and massive ...
A recent study published in PLOS One reveals that Neanderthals and early modern humans began to reshape Europe’s ecosystems tens ...
Airborne laser scanning over the Karst Plateau, on the border between Slovenia and Italy, has revealed a network of prehistoric ...
Satellite imagery has revealed 76 ancient stone hunting traps and hundreds of previously unseen settlements in the high-altitude Andes of ...
The Gobi Desert today is one of the driest and harshest landscapes on Earth, stretching over northern China and Mongolia. ...
A new detailed analysis of archaeological evidence demonstrates that early human populations of southern South America relied on extinct megafauna—such ...
Archaeologists have uncovered a rare and remarkably preserved collection of stone tools, dating to around 30,000 years ago, at the ...
