New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of ...

Roughly 10,000 years ago, humans started shifting from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to building large agricultural settlements, marking one of the greatest transformations in human history. This ...

Thomas Hart, assistant professor of anthropology at New Mexico State University, examines the origins of food in the ancient ...

Most research on women in Ancient Greece and Rome concentrate on urban domestic life where there were no references to women ...

An Italian study reveals that ancient DNA from Western Hunter-Gatherers, who survived the Ice Age, is more prevalent in ...