A look through hundreds of previous studies – on everything from modern human anatomy and physiology to measures of the ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Eat meat. That's the dietary advice given by a team of scientists who examined the dietary role of fat in a study that combined nutritional analysis with anthropologic research ...

Despite an incredibly rich prehistory covering nearly ten thousand years, modern coverage of complex hunter-gatherer societies has tended to overlook the Jomon of Japan. This text presents an overview ...

This is the most voluminous source available on modern hunter-gatherer societies with many excellent and readily accessible contributions.' Thomas Widlok, Journal of the Royal Anthropological ...

In exploring the link between soil and agriculture, this article will highlight 1) our transition from hunter-gatherer to agrarian societies; 2) the major soil properties that contribute to ...

The work is published in the journal PLOS ONE. These findings expand the known repertoire of Ice Age art and offer remarkable ...

Today, only a few hunter-gatherer communities still exist, such as the Hadza of Tanzania. Research shows that many of the health problems that plague modern society, such as cardiovascular disease and ...

Our original hunter-gatherer societies were followed by the agricultural revolution and new types of society beginning some 10,500 years ago. The next shift resulted from the formation of the ...

Among some contemporary hunter-gatherer societies, like the Mbendjele and the !Kung in southern Africa, there seems to be exceptionally high responsiveness to crying babies. In WEIRD societies ...