Spears from the Schöningen open-cast coal mine have been examined and show that wood was a crucial raw material 300,000 years ago
The reason for the proximity between Paleolithic extensive stone quarries and water sources: Elephant hunting by early humans
Genetic analysis and archaeological insight combine to reveal the ancient origins of the fallow deer, the results have been published in two new studies
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
Researchers have linked the travels of a 14,000-year-old woolly mammoth with the oldest known human settlements in Alaska
Hunting of straight-tusked elephants was widespread among Neanderthals 125,000 years ago; the study has been published in PNAS
Evidence from Bilzingsleben, in eastern Germany shows that early humans hunted beavers, 400,000 years ago, and had a varied diet than previously known
‘Woman the hunter’: studies aim to correct history, the last one being published in the November issue of Scientific American
Long-distance weaponry, such as spearthrowers, have been identified at the 31,000-year-old archaeological site of Maisières-Canal
UD anthropology professor Sarah Lacy rebukes notion that only men were hunters in ancient, prehistoric times
