New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of ...

Roughly 10,000 years ago, humans started shifting from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to building large agricultural settlements, marking one of the greatest transformations in human history. This ...

As ancient communities shifted from foraging to farming, the forces driving this dramatic change weren’t always what many once believed. For decades, archaeologists and historians pointed to climate ...

Thomas Hart, assistant professor of anthropology at New Mexico State University, examines the origins of food in the ancient ...