Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, the former Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, who has died aged 87, was better known to the public as the archaeologist Colin Renfrew.

Using ancient samples, the scientists were able to peer into the past and reveal new markers of adaptation from the early ...

An adaptation that is, unfortunately, maladapted to modern life. How the Neolithic Revolution Shaped Human Evolution For tens of thousands of years, humans were nomads. They traveled from place to ...

This is traditionally told as a straightforward story of human progress. After humans made the switch, population growth ...

LAND acts as the primary source of food. More than eight billion people still draw 99.9 per cent of food from land. Out of ...

A recent study published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology suggests that for 2 million years, Homo sapiens and ...

Paleolithic cuisine was anything but lean and green, according to a study on the diets of our Pleistocene ancestors.

Over 100 small stone objects from Neolithic period are the earliest instance of 'spindle whorls,' used to spin fibers into ...

More than 90,000 stone artifacts from the Neolithic period have been discovered from the Shiren Cave relic site in the city of Hailin, Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. The site ...