High in the frozen wilderness of British Columbia, archaeologists have uncovered a 5,300-year-old antler ice pick that offers a rare window into the harsh realities of ancient life. The discovery ...

It has been thought that ancient human groups had a loose structure in which men were the hunters and women were the gatherers. But scientists have recently unearthed the remains of a 9,000-year-old ...

(The Hill) — Popular depictions of prehistoric hunts tend to show ancient humans hurling their spears into mammoths and mastodons. But such a technique would have been less than useless — leaving a ...

Ancient men are traditionally imagined as hunters, while women are gatherers. But this stereotype may be just that, according to a new study. This discovery opens up exciting new possibilities of what ...

A woman buried with spearpoints and other hunting tools roughly 9,000 years ago in Peru’s Andes Mountains has reemerged to claim the title of the oldest known female big-game hunter in the Americas.

If you were to conjure an image of an ancient hunter-gatherer society, you’d probably picture men as the hunters and women as the gatherers. But a 9,000-year-old burial site discovered recently in the ...

A rock shelter with rock art and inscriptions spanning millennia has been discovered in Egypt.