In Peru, archaeologists just uncovered the 9,000-year-old remains of teenage girl — who appears to have been a big game hunter. Her grave contained a 24-piece hunting toolkit which included spear tips ...

From the Forest Canopies to the Ocean Depths Across the globe, hunter-gatherer societies demonstrate a breathtaking array of movement strategies. In Southeast Asia, Bajau women spend hours diving ...

Researchers at University College London (UCL) developed mathematical models to test how gender equality might influence the makeup of hunter-gatherer groups. In one simulation, the researchers gave ...

About 19,000 years ago, a woman from a group of hunter-gatherers died and was buried in a cave in northern Spain. In 1996, ...

But Stone Age families likely had a relatively manageable amount of children. On average, hunter-gatherer women gave birth to four children spaced roughly four years apart. “Exercise, diet and ...

Most of us were taught there was a clear division of labour when it came to early hunter gatherers. Men did the hunting and women did the gathering. But new research suggest the roles were shared much ...