"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Paleo. Carnivore. Caveman. Whatever term you prefer to ...

A new study from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem reveals how early humans used fire daily, gathered wood nearby, and lived ...

Fungi have quietly shaped the trajectory of human civilization, from the diets of Paleolithic foragers to the beer in modern glasses and the experimental psychiatric drugs now in clinical trials. The ...

What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such as giant sloths and giant armadillos. In a study published in the journal ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The paleo diet popularized the image of a meat-based ...

The paleo diet popularized the image of a meat-based caveman-style diet, but that image is far from the archaeological truth. According to scientific research about what hominins and early humans ate, ...