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 ...

Pairing an evolutionary anthropologist with a child psychiatrist has produced a new study that provides interesting insights into how children’s mental well-being and education might be improved by ...

In the distant past sugar and fat were rare and prized, so humans evolved a strong drive to consume them whenever they were available. Now supermarket shelves explode with Twinkies and Doritos, ...

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As regular readers of this blog know, I have in previous posts commented on hunter-gatherers' playfulness; their playful religious practices; their playful approach toward productive work; their ...

Nov. 4 (UPI) --Analysis of ancient burial sites suggests female hunters were common among hunter-gatherer groups in the Americas. After discovering a 9,000-year-old female hunter buried in the Andes ...

Hunter-gatherers took shelter from the ice age in Southwestern Europe, but were replaced on the Italian peninsula according to two new studies, published in Nature and Nature Ecology & Evolution today ...

Researchers looking to identify some of the most difficult "finds" in archeology—including sites used by nomadic hunter-gatherer communities—are tapping technology to help in the search. Archeologists ...

Patrons enjoy dinner and drinks at Hunter Gatherer in Columbia on Thursday Dec. 12, 2024. Hunter Gatherer opened in 1995 as Columbia’s first microbrewery. It will close at the end of December. Tracy ...