The researchers believe that Neanderthals, an extinct species of human known to have lived in that area as far back as ...

Stone Age Chefs Spiced Up Food Even 6,000 Years Ago : The Salt Looks like our prehistoric ancestors were bigger foodies than we realized. Archaeologists have found evidence that hunter-gatherers ...

At the end of the last ice-age, between about 14,000 and 6,000 years ago, the sea levels rebounded. The previously exposed areas were inundated and the metals became dissolved in the seawater.

Learn about the 430,000-year-old stone tools and techniques that allowed ancient humans to butcher elephant meat for a hefty ...

Dr Miki Ben-Dor and colleagues set out to investigate whether stone-age humans were specialised carnivores or were they generalist omnivores. 'So far, attempts to reconstruct the diet of stone-age ...

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has ...

"So far, attempts to reconstruct the diet of stone-age humans were mostly based on comparisons to 20th century hunter-gatherer societies," explains Dr. Ben-Dor.

The work undermines the idea that a Stone Age diet was meat heavy — a rigid assumption perpetuated by present-day dietary trends like the Paleo diet.

The Stone Age equivalent of a food processor could have triggered the most momentous changes in human evolution, allowing a plant-eating ape with a big jaw and small brain to become a large ...

Life in the Stone Age was pretty tough for our ancestors. There were animals to fend off and track for food , new tools to make , and massive swings in climate to adapt to.

A new study has debunked the general meal plan behind the Paleo diet, with findings suggesting that some Stone Age people ate a mostly vegan diet.. According to the Harvard School of Public Health ...

The French may have coined the term "gourmand" a few hundred years ago, but it looks like humans were flexing their foodie muscles thousands of years before that. Scientists have found the first ...