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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: Hannah Devlin Science correspondent Early human hunter-gatherers ate mostly plants and vegetables, according to archeological findings that undermine the commonly held view that our ancestors lived on a high [...]

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: Tim Forssman Where the Limpopo and Shashe Rivers meet, forming the modern border between Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe, lies a hill that hardly stands out from the rest. [...]

CAMBRIDGE, UK -- The following information was released by the University of Cambridge: Hunter-gatherers can help us understand the conditions that children may be psychologically adapted to because we lived [...]

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: 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: Laurence Blair. Photographs by Santi Carneri In 1972, Catholic missionaries entered the Chaco forest of northern Paraguay and forced Oscar Pisoraja's family, and their nomadic Ayoreo people, to leave [...]

Byline: Stuart Ritchie Imagine discovering a fence in the middle of a desert. Not immediately seeing its purpose, you might think: 'Let's get rid of this useless fence!' But are [...]

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: Saeed Kamali Dehghan He survived a massacre that killed most of his family in the Brazilian Amazon and lived for 10 years alone in the forest, but Karapiru Awá [...]

MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada -- The following information was released by McGill University: Seasonal bottlenecks in available food determined overall limit on population size Published: 8 Nov 2021 Short growing seasons [...]

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: Steven Poole Like most big-idea books, this one begins by absurdly overstating the novelty of its argument. The author promises to reveal 'a radical idea' that has been 'erased [...]

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 [...]

Network Archeology had a rare chance to explore the hidden history of the land around the River Witham in the county of Lincolnshire, east of England, stretching back thousands of [...]

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 [...]

'Tourists don't like to see these,' they explain. As an anthropologist who has conducted field research with Batek people for many years, I have become familiar with these common expectations [...]

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 [...]

The CSU-Pueblo marching band, cheer and dance squads pose at the Colorado Children's Hospital in Denver. Photo courtesy of Ali Davis Cheerleaders interact with children at the Colorado Children's Hospital. [...]

Byline: Elijah Vega The conclusion stems from a 9,000-year-old burial plot at the high-altitude site of Wilamaya Patjxa in southern Peru, where researchers led by Randy Haas of the University [...]

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- The following information was released by the University of California - Santa Barbara: UCSB researcher's work reveals maize became a key food source in Central America [...]

FAIRFAX, VA -- The following information was released by the National Rifle Association: We are a species of hunter-gatherers but for many, easy access to food at the grocery stores [...]

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 [...]

By John Linderman Elm Staff Writer A growing sport across hipster enclaves throughout North America is axe-throwing, which grew in popularity since the founding of the Backyard Axe Throwing League [...]

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: Morgan Sherburne Archeologists work at rock shelters at Sehonghong and Melikane in southern Africa. Image credit: Brian Stewart ANN ARBOR--A clump of grass grows on an outcrop of shale [...]

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- The following information was released by the University of Southern California: Human evolution favors energy conservation, but has our evolution worked against us since inactivity is [...]

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The following information was released by the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor: A clump of grass grows on an outcrop of shale 33,000 years ago. [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the Center for the National Interest (former the Nixon Center): Why did we take so long to invent civilisation? Modern Homo sapiens [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The traps date from about 15,000 years ago and were found in the city of Tultepec, Estado de Mexico, the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) said in a [...]

Experts have uncovered more than 70,000 stone tools from a site at Blick Mead, just a mile away from the famous Wiltshire stone circle. They also found a ceremonial platform [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Puerto Williams, on the southernmost tip of Chile, feels like the end of the world. It lies on Navarino Island, separated from the mainland by the Beagle Channel - gateway [...]

Byline: Simon DenyerTOKYO - Their story is a depressingly familiar one. An indigenous people live as hunter-gatherers existence practicing animist beliefs, before settlers sweep across their land, bringing disease and [...]