New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of ...

Roughly 10,000 years ago, humans started shifting from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to building large agricultural settlements, marking one of the greatest transformations in human history. This ...

Most research on women in Ancient Greece and Rome concentrate on urban domestic life where there were no references to women ...

Pigs have spread across some of the most formidable natural barriers on Earth, appearing on islands where most mammals never arrived. From Southeast Asia to remote Pacific islands, they exist on both ...

Thomas Hart, assistant professor of anthropology at New Mexico State University, examines the origins of food in the ancient ...

Matthew Williams, academic affiliate assistant professor of biology at Penn State (left), and Christian Huber, assistant professor of biology at Penn State, are part of a team that used sophisticated ...