Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About 11,000 years ago, humans made a major shift from hunting and gathering to farming. This change, known as the Neolithic ...

Prehistoric humans are often believed to have largely eaten meat — to the extent that proponents of many modern low-carb diets portray them as closely resembling humans’ “primordial” eating style. But ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The advent of agriculture roughly 11,500 years ago in the Middle East was a milestone for humankind - a revolution in diet and lifestyle that moved beyond the way ...

In the inland Alentejo, in southern Portugal, far from the Atlantic coast and the major estuaries, the land has preserved a secret that challenges what we thought we knew about how and where the last ...

It has long been thought that meat played an important role in the diet of hunter-gatherers before the Neolithic transition. However, due to the scarcity of well-preserved human remains from ...

Two Hadza men in Tanzania carry bows and their catch. Andreas Lederer via Wikimedia under CC By-SA 2.0 What did people eat for dinner tens of thousands of years ago? Many advocates of the so-called ...

A researcher who works with hunter-gatherer tribes said their routines can teach us how to live longer. Preindustrial societies today and in human history have relied on close social bonds to stay ...

Conducted by an international team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig, Germany), Géoscience et Environnement Toulouse (Toulouse, France), and the ...