A new study of ancient pottery adds to evidence that hunter-gatherers in Europe ate more than meat and developed early ...

Ancient DNA solved the case.

Neolithic farmers belonging to what archaeologists refer to as the “Linear Pottery culture” began to expand across Europe ...

Millennia-old pottery remains from across Europe reveal that ancient communities in the region made elaborate meals using a ...

A study of ancient human DNA from a wetland region in Belgium, western Germany, and the Netherlands yielded surprising information about early British history.

Within a few centuries, the genetic landscape of the Rhine-Meuse region, including the wetlands, was completely reshaped. Our ...

Pairing an evolutionary anthropologist with a child psychiatrist has produced a new study that provides interesting insights into how children’s mental well-being and education might be improved by ...

Hunter-gatherers took shelter from the ice age in Southwestern Europe, but were replaced on the Italian peninsula according to two new studies, published in Nature and Nature Ecology & Evolution today ...

A new study published in PNAS Nexus suggests that the famous equality seen in some hunter-gatherer societies might be driven ...

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Anthropologists who have trekked to isolated regions of the world to observe hunter-gatherer societies—whether in Africa, Asia, South America or elsewhere—have consistently been impressed by the ...

In the distant past sugar and fat were rare and prized, so humans evolved a strong drive to consume them whenever they were available. Now supermarket shelves explode with Twinkies and Doritos, ...