In the Andes, the rise of agriculture to replace foraging was not the result of hardship and resource scarcity, but instead a ...

For years, archaeologists saw meat as the main course of early human diets. A new study published in PLOS ONE now challenges this belief with recent research that points to prehistoric plant-based ...

Explore the fascinating story of pig domestication and its role in human history and agricultural development.

For these early humans of the Andes, spanning from 9,000 to 6,500 years ago, there is indeed evidence that hunting of large mammals provided some of their diets. But the new analysis of the isotopic ...

If that were true, then early humans should have also been present in West and Central Africa, where rainforests were common. The oldest firm evidence of humans in African rainforests dated back ...

By studying the raw materials the objects were made of, the researchers were able to date them to the early and middle Holocene period, between 9,500 and 6,200 years ago.

A new study led by Dr. Aurélie Manin from the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford has traced the incredible ...

But as humans migrated to colder regions, they went from being hunter gatherers to forming agricultural and pastoral societies. The changes compelled them to adapt and played a pivotal role in ...

While early hunter-gatherers had multiple gene copies, European farmers saw a surge in the average number of AMY1 copies over the past 4,000 years, likely due to their starch-rich diets. Gokcumen’s ...