As farming emerged, nomadic hunter-gatherers gradually were pushed off prime farmland, and eventually they became limited to the forests of the Amazon, the arid grasslands of Africa, the remote ...

Cities are a relatively new invention, by human standards. Why did Neolithic people 11,000 years ago decide to give up their nomadic, hunter-gatherer lives and start to settle? And what were these ...

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and ...

But Stone Age families likely had a relatively manageable amount of children. On average, hunter-gatherer women gave birth to four children spaced roughly four years apart. “Exercise, diet and ...

Israeli fossils and genetic studies date dog domestication to around 10,000 years ago, coinciding with the Agricultural Revolution, when humans went from nomadic hunter-gatherers to farming and living ...

The site also holds evidence of stone dwellings that counter the myth that Aboriginal peoples were simply nomadic hunter-gatherers with no established settlements or sophisticated means of food ...