Around 33,000 years ago, Europe's climate cooled and a new human culture known as the Gravettians, known for hunting woolly ...

New research suggests early hunter-gatherers in North America purposefully produced ochre, the vivid red paint used in rock art pictographs all over the world, by heating bacteria.

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

Prehistoric hunter-gatherers heard the elks painted on rocks talking Researchers at the University of Helsinki performed acoustic impulse response measurements in front of 37 rock painting sites and ...

The data shows that prehistoric hunter-gatherers approaching the rock painting sites by water entered a special sensory environment where reality sounded doubled.

Mothers in the distant past may have had much more support than they do today, according to a study of an isolated community in the Republic of Congo that practices a hunter-gatherer lifestyle.

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 findings add to a growing body of archaeological and observed evidence that has steadily eroded the long-held notion of strictly gendered roles in so-called hunter-gatherer communities from ...

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

Researchers have discovered a megastructure in the Baltic Sea that was likely once used by hunter-gatherers to hunt reindeer nearly 11,000 years ago.

New research shatters another piece of the ‘hunter gatherer myth’ that persists in enforcing gender roles.