A new study suggests that the DNA some modern Japanese people have inherited from ancient hunter-gatherers may increase BMI.

There is a great deal of attention in modern societies to inequality and the social problems it causes. Often inequality is ...

Researchers performed acoustic impulse response measurements in front of 37 rock painting site and found that the same vertical rock surfaces that have the painted elks, humans and boats, are also ...

Earthen channels that span more than 640 kilometres show that pre-Mayan Mesoamericans built large-scale fish-trapping ...

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. This rapid ...

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. This rapid ...

Researchers at the University of Helsinki performed acoustic impulse response measurements in front of 37 rock painting sites ...

In her new book, the author of Braiding Sweetgrass shares Potawatomi insight that brightens the American holiday.

As hunter-gatherers, humans are both predators and vegetarians. So one might expect our normal activity level to be ...

An archaeologist from the University of New Hampshire and her team have collected data which indicates the presence of a ...