The findings revealed a surprising paradox: Even though the hunter-gatherer communities were relatively small and sparsely located, they were not isolated.

Sometime around 5,000 years ago, a woman was buried in the waterlogged lowlands where the Rhine and Meuse rivers fan toward the North Sea. She was part of a farming community, but roughly half her ...

When a massive environmental disaster strikes, do societies simply collapse and disappear? Or do people find a way to adapt, ...

In a study published in the International Journal of Paleopathology, Dr. Victoria Romano and her colleagues analyzed the bones of 189 hunter-gatherers who lived during the Late Holocene (~4000 to 250 ...

Hunter‑gatherer societies are often put on a pedestal as paragons of equality—but the reality is more complicated.

Italian centenarians have a higher proportion of DNA inherited from ancient hunter-gatherers compared to the general population, according to a new study that could lead to better understanding of ...

A new archaeological study, conducted along the Jordan River banks south of northern Israel’s Hula Valley, offers a fresh perspective on the dietary habits of early humans, challenging conventional ...

Learn how DNA from teeth buried near Lake Baikal showed that plague was already deadly before the rise of cities, farming, and efficient flea-borne spread. Archaeologists studying cemeteries near Lake ...

Learn how ancient DNA reveals migrant women helped Europe’s hunter-gatherers adopt farming thousands of years later than the rest of the continent. For thousands of years, communities living along the ...