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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ancient hunters stayed in the coldest part of Northern Europe rather than migrating to escape freezing winter conditions, archaeologists have found. Ancient hunters stayed in the coldest part of ...

During the Paleolithic era 35,000 years ago, a small cave bear settled into a cave to hibernate. It never woke up. Human hunters most likely found the bear — a species called Ursus rossicus — napping ...