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 ...

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

We are still hunting and we are still gathering, only what we hunt and what we gather has changed ...

Imagine Europe tens of thousands of years ago: dense forests, large herds of elephants, bison and aurochs—and small groups of people armed with fire and spears. A new study shows that these people ...

Farming was a great mistake. A fraud. The idea has taken hold in popular culture. Joe Rogan, an American podcaster whose interview with Donald Trump has been viewed over 60 million times, promotes a ...

WACO, Texas (April 15, 2026) – Hunter-gatherer societies are often portrayed as models of equality, cooperation and selfless food-sharing. However, Baylor University anthropologist Duncan N.E.

The arms of the Dibouka / Marion McCreedy -- The power of weakness / Henry S. Sharp -- Territoriality and land use among the Akulmiut of western Alaska / Elizabeth F. Andrews -- Nature and culture on ...

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.

Based on papers presented at the seventy-seventh annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. New perspectives on hunter-gatherer socioecology / Eric Alden Smith and Bruce Winterhalder ...

More than 3 decades ago, Kevin Varner spent a semester studying in Scotland. What no one could know at the time is that the visit would ultimately lead to Columbia history. Varner is the founder of ...