Our hunter-gatherer ancestors have given us many things. They passed down mastery of fire for cooking and early survival ...

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

It seems that southern Africa provided an ecological refuge where people adapted successfully for more than 200,000 years – ...

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 ...

In one of the largest African ancient-DNA studies to date, geneticists from Uppsala University, Sweden, and an archaeologist ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

On Younger Dryas climate change as a causal determinate of prehistoric hunter-gatherer culture change / Metin I. Eren -- Climate, technology, and society during the terminal Pleistocene period in ...

Ancient hunter-gatherers from Europe may have voyaged across the Mediterranean to Northern Africa around 8,500 years ago, new research suggests. Ancient DNA collected from the remains of Stone Age ...

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 ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) New genetic research is shedding light on some of the earliest chapters of our human history. In one of the largest studies of its kind, scientists analysed DNA from 28 ...