About 11,000 years ago, humans made a major shift from hunting and gathering to farming. This change, known as the Neolithic Revolution, dramatically altered our diets. For decades, scientists have ...

Some have called it the "million-year-old diet." A new study from Nature magazine says a hunter-gatherer diet could give you a way healthier gut microbiome. Researchers studied the Hadza people in ...

Prehistoric humans are often believed to have largely eaten meat — to the extent that proponents of many modern low-carb diets portray them as closely resembling humans’ “primordial” eating style. But ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The advent of agriculture roughly 11,500 years ago in the Middle East was a milestone for humankind - a revolution in diet and lifestyle that moved beyond the way ...

The Wilamaya Patjxa archeological site in Peru produced human remains showing that the diets of early people of the Andes were primarily composed of plant materials. The oft-used description of early ...

It has long been thought that meat played an important role in the diet of hunter-gatherers before the Neolithic transition. However, due to the scarcity of well-preserved human remains from ...

Italians are known for their food, architecture, and longevity (among other things), with the Mediterranean diet often cited ...

Two Hadza men in Tanzania carry bows and their catch. Andreas Lederer via Wikimedia under CC By-SA 2.0 What did people eat for dinner tens of thousands of years ago? Many advocates of the so-called ...

Previous studies identified specific genes related to a longer life span. However, the recent study in GeroScience ventured ...

Analysis of the remains of 24 individuals from the Wilamaya Patjxa and Soro Mik'aya Patjxa burial sites in Peru shows that early human diets in the Andes Mountains were composed of 80 percent plant ...