New research challenges hunter-gatherer narrative: in the Andes, between 9,000 and 6,500 years ago, diet was composed of 80 percent plant matter and meat played a secondary role
What did people eat in Mesolithic Scandinavia? A new study of the DNA in a chewing gum shows that deer, trout and hazelnuts were on the diet
Our Homo sapiens ancestors were already living in the north of present-day China around 45,000 years ago, 5,000 years earlier than thought
Researchers have linked the travels of a 14,000-year-old woolly mammoth with the oldest known human settlements in Alaska
The discovery of immense fortifications dating back 4,000 years at the Khaybar Oasis, in north-western Arabia
New research has uncovered internationally significant rock art sites in Arnhem Land were far from random and instead “chosen” for the critical vantage points they provided
The strengthening of the summer monsoon played a key role in the dispersion of Homo sapiens from Africa to East Asia during the interglacial between 70,000 and 125,000 years ago
First high mountain settlers, in the Huescan Pyrenees, at the start of the Neolithic already engaged in other livestock activities apart from transhumance
Rise of archery in the Americas has been dated to 5,000 years ago, due to projectiles from the Lake Titicaca basin, in the Andes Mountains
‘A ticking clock’: First ground-based survey of damage to Ukrainian cultural sites reveals severity, need for urgency