Many centuries before the advent of agriculture in Norway, ancient people transported fish into mountain lakes to create a ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of 7,000-year-old fish traps in the mountains of southern Norway, indicating that ...

Archaeological work conducted at the Coves del Fem (Ulldemolins, Priorat)—located within the Serra de Montsant Natural ...

The skeletons of nomadic families unearthed in Siberia harbor "Yersinia pestis" bacteria, which challenges theories about conditions needed for the disease to spread ...

Scientists have solved a mystery that puzzled them for decades: Why were so many dead children buried by hunter-gatherers in ...

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Fewer than 1,500 Hadza hunter-gatherers remain in Tanzania, making them one of the last communities on Earth still living a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists excavate inside and outside Little Muck Shelter, in the Mapungubwe National Park, South Africa. Photo: Tim Forssman ...

Plague swept through groups of hunter-gatherers in southeastern Siberia 5,500 years ago, leaving dozens dead in its wake—with DNA from Yersinia pestis bacteria still trapped inside their teeth.

In a recent study published in the journal Nature, a group of researchers investigated the origins, transmission patterns, genetic characteristics, and mortality impact of early Yersinia pestis ...

Hunter-gatherers who lived more than 2,000 years ago near the top of the world appear to have run ironworking operations as advanced as those of farming societies far to the south. Excavations in what ...

As regular readers of this blog know, I have in previous posts commented on hunter-gatherers' playfulness; their playful religious practices; their playful approach toward productive work; their ...