New research shows that humans left their mark on the landscape through hunting and the use of fire tens of thousands of years before the advent of agriculture. The research paints a new picture of ...

Archaeological evidence from the world-famous Mesolithic site of Star Carr in North Yorkshire has shown that hunter-gatherers likely kept an orderly home by creating 'zones' for particular domestic ...

Some DNA passed down from ancient hunter-gatherers has been found to be a crucial force in living to be 100 years old.

Dozens of items that were found in a cave in southern Spain more than a century ago date from the Mesolithic era and are much older than previously thought, according to a new study. By Rachel ...

Research from the Francis Crick Institute published today in Current Biology has revealed that diversity in genes coding for immunity may have facilitated adaptation to farming lifestyles in ...

Evidence discovered in a cave on Malta indicates hunter-gatherers visited the picturesque Mediterranean island long before they began farming on mainland Europe. If true, the 8,500-year-old ...

Long before ancient Britons erected the mysterious monoliths of Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain, the region was a hunting hot spot where Mesolithic people stalked animals, including, researchers now ...

In the late 1980s, archaeologists discovered the remains of a woman who had lived in Belgium’s Meuse Valley roughly 10,500 years ago. Now, researchers say they have an idea of what she might have ...

The Neolithic age – when agriculture and animal farming were adopted – has become one of the most widely studied periods of social and economic transition in recent years. It was a period that drove ...

What may have been the oldest pair of shoes in Europe were discovered in a cave in Spain and are now thought to be much older than scientists previously thought. About 20 pairs of the sandals are at ...