As ancient communities shifted from foraging to farming, the forces driving this dramatic change weren’t always what many ...

Seeing the north coast of Peru for the first time, you would be hard-pressed to believe it's one of the driest deserts in the ...

In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the ...

Across the last 10,000 years, inequality has followed no single path. Instead of a straight rise tied to farming, population booms, or cities, the divide between rich and poor has ebbed and flowed ...

Ancient civilizations around the world had clever ... These timekeeping systems were very important for farming, religious events, and governance and influenced the Julian and Islamic calendars ...

We're living in a period where the gap between rich and poor is dramatic, and it's continuing to widen. But inequality is nothing new. In a new study researchers compared house size distributions from ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously unknown ancestry. DNA analysis of the mummies, which are the remains of ...