A new study has found that hunter-gatherers in northern Spain breastfed their children for up to four years, revealing how prehistoric communities in the Cantabrian region lived and survived some 7,000 years ago.
The study, published in Archaeological and Anthropological...
For decades, conventional wisdom held that bread didn't exist among Paleolithic people and was a relatively recent human innovation, an agricultural byproduct that emerged with the rise of farming in the Neolithic era, roughly 10,000 years ago. Recent archaeological...
A recent study challenges long-held beliefs about humanity's transition from hunting and gathering to farming, one of the most significant changes in human history.
Traditionally, researchers attributed this transformation to environmental factors such as climate change, rainfall, or fertile river...
Archaeologists in northern Germany have uncovered a striking clue to early ritual life: a skull of an aurochs, an ancient species of wild cattle, that had been placed on a wooden stake near a 10,500-year-old cremation burial.
The find, made...
A 7,000-year-old worked fragment of a deer antler recovered from a Neolithic settlement in central Germany is offering rare insight into early exchanges between farming communities and surrounding hunter-gatherers.
Researchers say the object, shaped from the antler of a young...
As technology accelerates progress, a curious paradox emerges: advancement brings humanity back to its beginnings. Remote work signals a return to the mobility of hunter-gatherers. Rekindling this wandering hearth, digital nomads are challenging the concept of nation-states.
The roots of...
Archaeologists have uncovered what they describe as the world’s oldest known cremation of an adult at a site in northern Malawi, offering new insights into ancient burial traditions in Africa. The remains were found in a rock shelter called...
A new study offers fresh insight into the early days of European agriculture, revealing that ancient hunter-gatherers and farmers coexisted for generations as farming practices spread across the continent.
Published in Science Advances, the research reveals that the two groups...
Around 11,500 years ago, farming started in the Middle East. It was a revolution for humans. Before that, people mainly hunted and gathered food, a lifestyle they followed for over 300,000 years since humans evolved in Africa.
There are very...
A recent study reveals that, about 9,400 years ago, hunter-gatherers living in what is now Brazil made rock art near dinosaur footprints. These drawings were discovered close to the fossilized footprints of dinosaurs from the Cretaceous period, which was...
