Archaeological records indicate that prehistoric people in Europe relied on fire throughout the Ice Age—but the evidence drops off during its harshest period. reading time 2 minutes Scholars generally ...

Text.: Holocene climate, environmental change, and Neolithic biocultural discontinuity in the Baikal region / Dustin White and Andrew Bush -- Radiocarbon dating of Middle Holocene culture history in ...

Finnish prehistoric rock paintings (5000–1500 BCE) on the cliffs rising directly from the lakes are acoustically special environments. When the lake levels have remained unchanged, these extremely ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a prehistoric site in South America where hunter-gatherers butchered a now-extinct elephant relative more than 12,000 years ago. A study, published in the open-access ...

Archaeologist Adrián Oyaneder was reviewing satellite images of a valley in the Andean highlands of northern Chile when he ...

Scientists have compiled the largest database of ancient DNA based on the bones and teeth of almost 5,000 humans who lived across Western Europe and parts of Central Asia from 34,000 years ago until ...

Two waves of mass death hit prehistoric Denmark, with farmers wiping out hunter-gatherers and pastoralists later wiping out the farmers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Following the arrival of the first farmers in Scandinavia 5,900 years ago, the hunter-gatherer population was wiped out within a few generations, according to a new study. The results, which are ...

A new study suggests that the DNA some modern Japanese people have inherited from ancient hunter-gatherers may increase BMI. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Researchers performed acoustic impulse response measurements in front of 37 rock painting site and found that the same vertical rock surfaces that have the painted elks, humans and boats, are also ...