A new study published in PNAS Nexus suggests that the famous equality seen in some hunter-gatherer societies might be driven ...

When ancient DNA studies began to gain attention, little more than a decade ago, the view took hold among geneticists that ...

Early European hunter-gatherers developed a sophisticated method of information storage long before the advent of formal ...

A study of ancient human DNA from a wetland region in Belgium, western Germany, and the Netherlands yielded surprising ...

Hunter & Gather,  the award‑winning functional wellness brand driving the real‑food agenda, has named functional nutritionist ...

Ancient DNA shows that hunter-gatherers in northwestern Europe endured for millennia, with women driving a gradual cultural shift toward farming.

The invention of cities marked one of the most profound shifts in human history. Around 12,000 years ago, the Neolithic Revolution saw hunter-gatherers begin domesticating plants and animals, leading ...

Ancient DNA solved the case.

Learn how microscopic food traces in ancient pottery reveal the varied ingredients of prehistoric European cuisine.

The paper, published recently in PLOS One, describes an investigation of 112 ostrich eggshell fragments dating back more than ...

This Ice Age pair of hunter-gatherers were both shorter than average for their population – one of them markedly so – and now we finally know why. A team of researchers from Europe re-examined the ...

The third grave carried two children with a third degree relation—probably cousins—and the fourth grave had a young woman and a girl, also related at the third degree. Likely, one was a cousin or ...