Findings from a new study challenge the traditional view that a heavy reliance on plant-based diets started only with the advent of agriculture.
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Articles on Hunter-gatherers
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Human culture has changed too fast for evolution to keep up.
Cassava’s many assets would seem to make it the ideal crop, except for one drawback: It’s highly poisonous. Human ingenuity has made cassava edible for millennia.
By detailing the landscape at the time of first humans’ migration into Australia, we can better understand how people travelled and where they settled.
Neanderthals and humans may have been equally smart and skilled, but some evidence points to humans living in larger groups.
Out of Darkness attempts at historical accuracy are a welcome surprise, and what’s more, it is fun to watch.
Genetic analysis reveals one of the teenagers probably had advanced gum disease.
Making just a few small changes in our daily lives can help improve our health and help us live more aligned with how we evolved.
The Punan Batu is one of the most active nomadic hunter-gatherer groups still existing in the world. They have unique characteristics that are different from other groups in Borneo.
Female bodies have an advantage in endurance ability that means Paleolithic women likely hunted game, not just gathered plants. The story is written in living and ancient human bodies.
For a decade, debate has raged over Dark Emu’s account of Aboriginal agriculture. But ancient food production in Australia is more complex than labels like farming or hunter-gathering suggest.
The decline of seaweed as part of the staple diet in Europe remains a mystery.
A forensic technique more often used at modern crime scenes identified blood residue from large extinct animals on spearpoints and stone tools used by people who lived in the Carolinas millennia ago.
If hunter-gatherers went beyond nose-to-tail eating to include the undigested plant matter in a prey animal’s stomach, assumptions about gendered division of labor start to fall apart.
This whirlwind tour of social history describes how infectious diseases have shaped humanity at every stage. It suggests reducing inequality will give us our best chance of surviving future plagues.
Hunter-gatherers were an important part of the development of the Mapungubwe Kingdom in southern Africa – a fact that history has tended to neglect.
45,000 years ago, people first started arriving in what’s known as Europe today. We thought a worsening ice age made them disappear – but it seems some lineages survived.
When, how, where and why did complex hierarchical societies evolve? Understanding how we got to this point in time may help us address global challenges, like climate change.
New genetic research shows humans’ famed ability to adapt our behaviour and develop new tools and techniques has not always been enough to survive when times have grown tough.
Sometimes archaeologists can “hear” the ancient past using acoustic methods.
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