For millennia, ancient civilizations have left us clues about the importance of living in harmony with nature. Despite the ...

The computer modeling revealed that prehistoric humans influenced European landscapes through two primary mechanisms: deliberate burning of trees and shrubs to create more open habitats, and hunting ...

Imagine Europe tens of thousands of years ago: dense forests, large herds of elephants, bison and aurochs – and small groups of people armed with fire ...

A government program in Spain is training African migrants as shepherds to tackle rural depopulation and job shortages ...

Imagine Europe tens of thousands of years ago: dense forests, large herds of elephants, bison and aurochs—and small groups of ...

Archaeologists have learned about the lives of the world’s earliest farmers, how they traveled, and socialized in Neolithic north Syria between about 11,600 and 7,500 years ago. Using advanced ...

New research explores how diet, evolution, and facial anatomy may have shaped our modern smiles. Studies of ancient skulls show wider jaws and fewer malocclusions, leading researchers to explore how ...

“A bird that has a lifetime of experience with novelty will probably desensitize to a scarecrow faster,” Friedman explains.

Archaeologists have revealed new insights into how the world’s first farming villagers formed communities, moved across the ...

Satellite imagery has uncovered 76 elaborate stone hunting traps and hundreds of previously unknown settlements in the Andean highlands of northern Chile, revealing that hunting and foraging remained ...

Teeth reveal the story of how humans in the Neolithic villages of Syria lived, worked, and raised families thousands of years ago.

In Mexico, traditionally women did not inherit chinampas, island farms first built by the Aztecs thousands of years ago ...