Author: Bruce Bower / Source: Science News People settled down high up — really high up — as early as around 40,000 years ago. That’s when humans first inhabited East Asia’s Tibetan Plateau, about 4,600 meters above sea level, scientists say. Until now, evidence of humans colonizing this

Author: Matt Gilligan / Source: did you know? On Jicarón Island, off the coast of Panama, a group of capuchin monkeys have entered the Stone Age. Researchers witnessed a small group of white-faced capuchin monkeys using stone tools to break nuts and shellfish. These are officially the fourth

Via The Daily Bell Good food plus interesting people is a recipe for happiness. As humans evolved, we lived in tight knit self-sufficient communities. Nomadic hunter gatherers spent their time foraging, hunting, eating, and playing together. It’s tempting to romanticize those days, but they came

Archaeologists have unearthed an incredibly rare flint axe from the Stone Age that just may have been used in an ancient ritual. The 5,500-year-old discovery -- found jammed into the Earth with its wooden handle still attached -- was part of an ongoing excavation on the island of Lolland in