When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Dorling Kindersley ltd via Alamy Researchers who thought ancient hunters threw spears to ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient humans used poisoned arrowheads to hunt prey 60,000 years ago, archeologists discovered. Traces of plant toxins were found ...

For decades, scientists commonly believed that early humans had a pretty strict division of labor. Men did the hunting. Women did the gathering. That view has been shifting, and a new study could ...