Ancient men are traditionally imagined as hunters, while women are gatherers. But this stereotype may be just that, according to a new study. This discovery opens up exciting new possibilities of what ...

A woman buried with spearpoints and other hunting tools roughly 9,000 years ago in Peru’s Andes Mountains has reemerged to claim the title of the oldest known female big-game hunter in the Americas.

It has been thought that ancient human groups had a loose structure in which men were the hunters and women were the gatherers. But scientists have recently unearthed the remains of a 9,000-year-old ...

High in the frozen wilderness of British Columbia, archaeologists have uncovered a 5,300-year-old antler ice pick that offers a rare window into the harsh realities of ancient life. The discovery ...

Ancient humans used poisoned arrowheads to hunt prey 60,000 years ago, archeologists discovered. Traces of plant toxins were found on quartz Stone Age arrowheads in South Africa, the oldest known ...

Ancient hunters stayed in the coldest part of Northern Europe rather than migrating to escape freezing winter conditions, archaeologists have found. Ancient hunters stayed in the coldest part of ...

Ancient hunters stayed in the coldest part of Northern Europe rather than migrating to escape freezing winter conditions, archeologists have found. Evidence from Arctic fox bones show communities ...