What we do know is that the Hitra man lived in a very turbulent period. Up to that point, most people lived as hunter-gatherers
More plants on the menu of ancient hunter-gatherers: isotopic evidence reveals surprising dietary practices of pre-agricultural human groups at Taforalt, in Morocco
Humans occupied a lava tube called Umm Jirsan, in Saudi Arabia, for thousands of years: bones and artifacts indicate a timeline of herding and agriculture in northern Arabia
People living in ancient Eastern Arabia appear to have developed resistance to malaria following the appearance of agriculture in the region around five thousand years ago
A new study shows, among other things, that there have been two almost total population turnovers in Denmark over the past 7,300 years
The first analysis results now confirm that the dolmen in Tiarp is one of the oldest stone burial chambers in Sweden
A new database of weeds that can help scientists understand how traditional agricultural systems were managed throughout history
Cranial traumas show dramatic increase as the first cities were being built: in the 12,000 years before antiquity, the share of violent death rose at first and then fell back
Researchers found unaltered agave plants cultivated by several early cultures including the Hohokam people, from southern Arizona north to the Grand Canyon
Ancient Maya reservoirs, which used aquatic plants to filter and clean the water, “can serve as archetypes for natural, sustainable water systems to address future water needs”