What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such ...

Mushrooms may not be the first food that comes to mind when we imagine the diets of wild primates—or our early human ...

Ancient animal bones from Spain’s Malia shelter reveal repeated visits by early humans between 36,200 and 26,260 years ago.

Study: Hominins had a taste for high-carb plants long before they had the teeth to eat them, providing first evidence of behavioral drive in the human fossil record As early humans spread from lush ...

New research reveals ancient camel engravings in Saudi Arabia may have guided early humans to seasonal water sources, pushing ...

Long before modern humans appeared in Africa about 300,000 years ago, our ancestors faced a crisis that almost ended the lineage entirely. A groundbreaking study has revealed that between 930,000 and ...

ANTH copy purchased with funds from the Lloyd and Charlotte Wineland Library Endowment for Native American and Western Exploration Literature. Introduction / Albert C. Goodyear and Christopher R.

Imagine walking miles and miles across dangerous terrain frequented by sabertoothed cats just to find the right rock. Around 2.6 million years ago, a group of early hominins in East Africa started to ...

In May 2020, a research team announced the exciting results of their study of the largest fossil human footprint site in Africa: Engare Sero, Tanzania. With nearly 400 footprints, these fossilized ...

As early humans spread from lush African forests into grasslands, their need for ready sources of energy led them to develop a taste for grassy plants, especially grains and the starchy plant tissue ...