Italians are known for their food, architecture, and longevity (among other things), with the Mediterranean diet often cited ...

About 11,000 years ago, humans made a major shift from hunting and gathering to farming. This change, known as the Neolithic Revolution, dramatically altered our diets. For decades, scientists have ...

Some have called it the "million-year-old diet." A new study from Nature magazine says a hunter-gatherer diet could give you a way healthier gut microbiome. Researchers studied the Hadza people in ...

Prehistoric humans are often believed to have largely eaten meat — to the extent that proponents of many modern low-carb diets portray them as closely resembling humans’ “primordial” eating style. But ...

Analysis of the remains of 24 individuals from the Wilamaya Patjxa and Soro Mik'aya Patjxa burial sites in Peru shows that early human diets in the Andes Mountains were composed of 80 percent plant ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The advent of agriculture roughly 11,500 years ago in the Middle East was a milestone for humankind - a revolution in diet and lifestyle that moved beyond the way ...

It has long been thought that meat played an important role in the diet of hunter-gatherers before the Neolithic transition. However, due to the scarcity of well-preserved human remains from ...

A researcher who works with hunter-gatherer tribes said their routines can teach us how to live longer. Preindustrial societies today and in human history have relied on close social bonds to stay ...

The Wilamaya Patjxa archeological site in Peru produced human remains showing that the diets of early people of the Andes were primarily composed of plant materials. The oft-used description of early ...