Learn how fossil evidence reveals the repeatable way early humans accessed, processed, and shared meat.

Archaeology reveals early humans likely scavenged carcasses and transported meat, challenging the classic hunter narrative.

But for earlier humans, meat consumption appeared to be a critical, yet somewhat poorly understood, contributor to ...

Ancient snail shells helped archeologists re-evaluate the age of the oldest known wooden weapons collection: a site in Lower Saxony, Germany, famous for its arsenal of hunting equipment, including ...

A new study indicates that human behavior around 45,000 to 29,000 years ago contributed to a change in the composition of scavenging animal species living nearby. While smaller scavenging animals such ...

60,000-year-old traces of arrow poison on quartz arrowheads have been found at the Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. This discovery represents the oldest direct evidence of ...