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Byline: Simeon Tegel Rare images of members of the world's largest uncontacted tribe show them emerging from the Peruvian Amazon -- just miles from where companies are controversially logging pristine [...]

Byline: Sarah Knapton SCIENCE editor MODERN parents take on much more of the childcare responsibilities themselves than their Stone Age ancestors, but this leads to less effective parenting, a study [...]

Byline: Sarah Knapton, Science Editor Modern parents take on much more of the childcare responsibilities themselves than their Stone Age ancestors, but this leads to less effective parenting, a new [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Williamson The child's headstone is inscribed simply 'Nannie,' marking the grave of a 7-year-old girl who died on May 18, 1856. She is buried in one of Washington's [...]

Byline: Carl Zimmer In the 1800s, archaeologists began reconstructing the deep history of Europe from the bones of ancient hunter-gatherers and the iconic art they left behind, like cave paintings, [...]

Byline: Boudicca Fox-Leonard Are you weak and defenceless in the face of a sticky toffee pudding or a plate of chips? While treats are what make life pleasurable, there's a [...]

Byline: Gabriel Popkin On a crisp fall day in 2019, I found myself on my hands and knees in a dreary office parking lot, feeling somewhat self-conscious, picking up acorns. [...]

Byline: Saeb Rawashdeh Aug. 13IRBID Communal buildings in Sharara, a site located in Wadi Al Hasa which overlooks the southern part of the Dead Sea, during Pre-Pottery Neolithic A period, [...]

Byline: Carol Comegno, Cherry Hill Courier-Post WOODLAND TWP. -- An old timer living a solitary life in the wilds of the New Jersey Pinelands is in no hurry to work [...]

Tanzania, June 28 -- Arusha. The Kenya government has been ordered to pay Ksh57.8 million (about Sh1.1 billion) as compensation to the indigenous Ogiek hunter-gatherers. The landmark ruling was made [...]

Byline: Sarah Knapton, Science Editor Modern Britain may feel hopelessly divided, but at the end of the Ice Age, the country was also split into two tribes, each with alarmingly [...]

Byline: Alex Preston Charles Foster's previous book, Being a Beast, is one of the oddest things I've read. In it, the author, a barrister, professor of law, part-time judge and [...]

Byline: Daily Telegraph Reporter HAVING big noses helped early humans compete with primate rivals by reducing water loss, a study suggests. Water efficiency became a distin guishing feature that separates [...]

Byline: Amy Sood, CNN (CNN) -- Humanity has been ravaged by the plague -- one of the deadliest bacterial infections in history -- for thousands of years. Now, scientists have [...]

Byline: Connor McGovern Why is foraging so popular? Eating with the seasons and sourcing food from the wild has long been an approach revered by many chefs. And as awareness [...]

The ring of skulls, skeletons, tusks and other bones was too large for a roof, scientists say, so what was it for? Ice Age hunter-gatherers, foraging the bone-chilling, unforgiving steppes [...]

If you are sitting down to read this article, you may be doing your resting wrong, according to a fascinating new study of hunter-gatherer tribespeople and how they idle. The [...]

MAMMOTH BONE RING STRUCTURE DATES BACK 25,000 YEARS ARCHAEOLOGISTS have discovered one of the oldest Ice Age structures made of mammoth bones. Hunter-gatherers assembled bones of 60 mammoths, found at [...]

Squatting or kneeling at work instead of sitting could help stave off chronic diseases, anthropologists suggest. Scientists from Californian universities found that the Hadza people of Tanzania, who do not [...]

Squatting or kneeling at work instead of sitting could help stave off chronic diseases, anthropologists suggest. Scientists from Californian universities found that the Hadza people of Tanzania, who do not [...]

ASK LAUREN HUTTON her secret to looking so radiant at 76, and she will give you all the good old-fashioned advice about getting plenty of sleep, drinking lots of water [...]

Scientists dig into the diet, health and history of Danish hunter-gatherers in a new study. When hunter-gatherers living in what is now southern Denmark broke down pieces of birch bark [...]

Byline: Adrian Clark L ayering on bits and pieces to keep warm, you can lose sight of looking sharp. But it doesn't have to be that way. Beanie hats are [...]

HUMANS are not to blame for the death of the Neanderthal, as they effectively killed themselves off, a university study has found. Dutch researchers believe their demise might have been [...]

Researchers from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History say the discovery illuminates the relationship between humans and the Pleistocene animals. Archaeologists have discovered a large trove of mammoth skeletons [...]

Byline: Sarah Knapton Science editor BRITAIN'S first 'city' arose near an ancient spring on Salisbury Plain, and its inhabitants probably built Stonehenge, archaeologists believe. Blick Mead lies just a mile [...]

'So,' recapped my mother, 'you spent your holiday in Tuscany making jam... We'd just returned from Stigliano, a tiny village overlooking the Val di Merse. The patchwork of the valley's [...]

Byline: SOMMER BROKAW The University of York unveiled a study Saturday that tracks the use of dairy products by the first farmers who settled across the western portion of Europe [...]

Byline: BROOKS HAYS New research suggests southwestern Amazonia was one of several global hotspots for early crop cultivation. Around the same time, during the early Holocene Epoch, humans began cultivating [...]

Byline: Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) -- Around 25,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers used the bones from 60 mammoths to build a large circular structure in Russia. And no one knows why. [...]

Byline: Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) -- Thousands of years ago, hunter-gatherers took the remains of ostrich eggshells and made them into decorative beads. But researchers found them in areas where [...]

Byline: BROOKS HAYS As hunter-gatherers settled down and took to farming the land, groups of people began gathering in larger numbers and cooperating. But new research suggests the adoption of [...]

Byline: WADE SHERIDAN Dave Annable will be featured on NBC drama This is Us in a guest-starring role. Annable will appear in an upcoming Season 4 episode as Kirby, an [...]

ORANGE: MemorialCare has issued the following press release: Gregory Thomas, M.D., globally recognized for leading research of mummies to search for signs of heart disease and pushing the boundaries of [...]

Byline: BROOKS HAYS New research suggests early hunter-gatherers in North America purposefully produced ochre, the vivid red paint used in rock art pictographs all over the world, by heating bacteria. [...]

Byline: Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) -- Archeologists in Mexico have uncovered traps containing the remains of at least 14 mammoths. The traps date from about 15,000 years ago and were [...]

Byline: BROOKS HAYS Anthropologists in Mexico have unearthed ancient pits used to trap mammoths. The remains of 14 woolly mammoths were found inside the 15,000-year-old, human-dug pits. '[The discovery] represents [...]

Byline: Sarah Knapton Science editor MUSEUMS should rearrange displays about Neanderthals to include the sick, old and infirm rather than strapping hunters, an archaeologist has said. Dioramas of prehistoric communities [...]

Byline: Stephen Beech Mankind has been messing up the planet for more than 4,000 years, according to major new research. The study suggests that today's alarm over climate change and [...]

Byline: Sarah Knapton Science editor BRITAIN'S helicopter parents should learn from hunter-gatherers who let their toddlers play with machetes, if they want to have self-sufficient children, anthropologists at University College [...]

The Amrabad Tiger Reserve, spanning more than 2,800sq km of verdant jungle in India's southern state of Telangana, is a paradise of biodiversity. One of the biggest nature reserves in [...]

Byline: DAVID JOHNSTON Lead Executive adviser at Deloitte Canada and former Governor-General of Canada Technological revolutions have profound effects on human civilization - sometimes good, sometimes bad. We are now [...]

Byline: DAVID JOHNSTON Executive adviser at Deloitte Canada and former Governor-General of Canada Technological revolutions have profound effects on human civilization - sometimes good, sometimes bad. We are now well [...]

Byline: Saeb Rawashdeh June 20-- Jun. 20--AMMAN -- Wadi Hammeh 27, located 2 kilometres north of Pella, represents one of the largest and most complex Natufian base-camps in the southern [...]

'W brilliant pubs around here,' says Mike Robinson of Cirencester. The chef, restaurateur and hunter-gatherer is co-owner of the Michelin-starred Harwood Arms in Fulham, and recently opened The Woodsman in [...]

Byline: Sarah Knapton Science editor SWITCHING from hunting to farming made life 50 per cent more difficult for humans, a study by the University of Cambridge suggests. The move to [...]

Byline: Sarah Knapton Science editor SWITCHING from hunting to farming made life 50 per cent more difficult for humans, a study by the University of Cambridge suggests. The move to [...]