The detailed reconstruction brings the prehistoric hunter-gatherer to life, revealing an intriguing set of features.

Using well-preserved ancient DNA, researchers have created a life-like facial reconstruction of a woman who lived in ...

She gazes out with piercing blue eyes. Her face, neither pale nor dark, sits framed by long, dark hair. If you passed her in ...

Over time, examples of modern hunter-gatherer societies everywhere from tropical forests to the Arctic tundra in which men hunted and women foraged began to stack up, Kelly said.

In 1988, archaeologists uncovered the grave of a Mesolithic woman who lived in Belgium's Meuse Valley 10,500 years ago. At ...

A new study challenges stereotypical ideas of gender roles in hunter-gatherer relationships. Here, an ancient engraving of a hunter appears in central Iran in 2016. Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images ...

Many hunter-gatherer cultures have disappeared over the millennia, but some of the societies mentioned in the paper include the Tiwi people of Australia, the Hadza of northern Tanzania, the Ganij ...

View of 'man as hunter, woman as gatherer' upended by new study : Goats and Soda The implications are potentially enormous, says history professor Kimberly Hamlin: "The myth that man is the hunter ...

As far back as the mid-1960s, says Kelly, scientists were coalescing around evidence that most of the diet in hunter-gatherer societies has come from plant food gathered by women.

4 ways women are physically stronger than men. Strength is associated with brute force, but female bodies excel in resilience and other key areas.

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have successfully reconstructed the face of a prehistoric woman who lived around 10,500 years ago.