A new study has shown that as early as the Stone Age, people in Africa traveled long distances to procure colorful stone, the ...

The detailed reconstruction brings the prehistoric hunter-gatherer to life, revealing an intriguing set of features.

More information: Hunter-gatherer childhoods may offer clues to improving education and wellbeing in developed countries, Cambridge study argues, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (2023).

Why did hunter-gatherers make cave drawings? Scientists have known about prehistoric cave paintings for hundreds of years. Some of the oldest ones date back to the Neanderthals over 60,000 years ...

Following the arrival of the first farmers in Scandinavia 5,900 years ago, the hunter-gatherer population was wiped out within a few generations, according to a new study. The results, which are ...

Unlike kids in the United States, hunter-gatherer children in the Congo Basin have often learned how to hunt, identify edible plants and care for babies by the tender age of six or seven.

The former Hunter-Gatherer brewery building on Columbia's Main Street will be deconstructed to make way for new development. The brewery closed in 2024.

Why did hunter-gatherers make cave drawings? Scientists have known about prehistoric cave paintings for hundreds of years. Some of the oldest ones date back to the Neanderthals over 60,000 years ago, ...

Hunter-gatherers in the region may have taken to the open seas before farming.

Hunting was once thought to belong to the domain of men. But new research finds women in foraging societies were often bringing home the bacon (and other prey, too).

Though not completely vegetarian, the Iberomaurusian hunter-gatherers from North Africa relied heavily on plants such as acorns, pistachios and oats.

Drawing on his own observations of the BaYaka people in Congo and the extensive research of anthropologists studying other hunter-gatherer societies, Dr Chaudhary highlights major differences in ...