A new study has shown that as early as the Stone Age, people in Africa traveled long distances to procure colorful stone, the ...

The change from Middle Stone Age (MSA) to Later Stone Age (LSA) marks a major cultural change amongst our hunter-gatherer ancestors, but distinguishing between these two industrial complexes is ...

This illustration shows tools recovered from the burial pit floor including projectile points (1 to 7), a possible backed knife (14), thumbnail scrapers (15 and 16), scrapers/choppers (17 to 19 ...

She gazes out with piercing blue eyes. Her face, neither pale nor dark, sits framed by long, dark hair. If you passed her in the street today, she might not seem out of place. But this woman died more ...

But at 10,000 years old, this birch-based gum offers scientists a chance to study ancient hunter-gatherer societies. ... The birch bark provided a crucial adhesive for tools using animals bones.

In the observed hunter-gatherer communities, caregiving goes so far beyond the parents, according to the researchers. Children often have 10+ caregivers and occasionally 20 or more, ...

The remains of a hunter-gatherer in Borneo who survived an amputation predate other Stone Age surgeries by tens of thousands of years, researchers say. Accessibility statement Skip to main content.