A study of 125 skeletons from two Neolithic cemeteries in Hungary has revealed that men and women had clear gender roles — ...

Further south, in the Don River basin, the menu changed. There, the “chefs” were obsessed with seeds. The foodcrusts were packed with wild grasses and wild legumes, like clover, all cooked together ...

Between 6000 and 3000 B.C.E., hunter-gatherers in northern and eastern Europe ate surprisingly complex meals that included a variety of plants—and they were picky about which ingredients they prepared ...

Ancient European hunter-gatherers were far more advanced in their cooking methods than previously thought, a new study has ...

The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like ...

Ancient DNA from Ajvide graves shows Stone Age burials often grouped extended relatives, highlighting the importance of wider ...

As humans expanded out of Africa and extended our dominion over the remaining continents, large animals began to go extinct wherever we reached. Known as the Late Quaternary Extinctions (LQEs), this ...

A new method of studying the contents of soil samples has revealed Stone Age people in Sweden were buried in decorated fur-and-feather clothing.

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has shown. Discovered during excavations carried out in 2014–15 and 2018–19, ...