Some 28,000 years ago, a teenager was mauled violently in a cave in what is now northern Italy. His community buried him with care—laid on red ocher, crowned with shells and deer teeth, a flint blade ...

The genetic makeup of a young boy buried in eastern Siberia some 24,000 years ago has turned out to hold two surprises for anthropologists. The first is that the boy’s DNA matches that of Western ...

Anthropologists challenge the traditional view of men as hunters and women as gatherers in prehistoric times. Their research reveals evidence of gender equality in roles and suggests that women were ...