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 ...

As I noted in an earlier post, all humans were hunter-gatherers until a mere 10,000 years ago, when agriculture first appeared in some parts of the planet. In other words, for about 99% of our million ...

The discovery of a 12,000-year-old carved scene showing a human confronting an animal is forcing archaeologists to rethink ...

Humans navigate today's world with a genetic profile largely the same as that of our Paleolithic ancestors, which has ...

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 ...

A new study suggests that many modern health challenges may stem from a deep evolutionary mismatch between our ancient biology and today’s industrialized environments.

A new paper by evolutionary anthropologists Colin Shaw (University of Zurich) and Daniel Longman (Loughborough University) ...

About 11,000 years ago, humans made a major shift from hunting and gathering to farming. This change, known as the Neolithic Revolution, dramatically altered our diets. For decades, scientists have ...

Across the dense forests of the Congo, the sunlit islands of the Pacific, and the icy reaches of the Arctic, the few ...

Turkey unveiled dozens of new finds at a major archaeological site in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, giving fresh insight ...

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 ...