A new study published on Thursday determined that humanity’s modern-day adoration for carbs may actually predate even the ...

Reconstruction of a Mesolithic camp-site with a hunter in the front ready to fire an arrow mounted with stone microliths. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of ...

This, they believe, shows that Mesolithic people had strict rules about how the remains of animals and objects used to kill them were disposed of. According to Dr Amy Gray Jones from the University of ...

We found that Cheddar man belonged to the same population as these individuals – usually referred to as western European Mesolithic hunter-gatherers – so in that context his pigmentation is not ...

There is still very little known about why hunter-gatherers would build such structures and continued to throughout the ...

“It was a paradise for hunter-gatherers,” he says. The publication in 2007 of the initial section of this map allowed archaeologists for the first time to “see” the Mesolithic ...

For instance, Mesolithic, which is also spread widely ... geological archaeologist Frederik Zeuner wrote. This gave the hunter-gatherers a hospitable environment with a water resource, which ...

A five-week programme of archaeological digs has uncovered small pieces of stone that give clues about Dartmoor's hunter-gatherer past. The pieces could help tell us more about those who lived in ...

When she was alive, this garment likely functioned as a carrier or sling that would have allowed her parents to remain mobile—a necessity for Mesolithic hunter-gatherers—while keeping her close.

The Stone Age in Britain took place between around 15000BC to 2500BC. The Mesolithic period is known as the middle stone age. Stone Age people cut up their food with sharpened stones and cooked it ...

Last year's excavation also uncovered a large shell midden, a place where the hunter-gatherers threw the uneaten remains of shellfish. Mesolithic finds have been made elsewhere in the Highlands in ...