Hunter-gatherers continue to eek out an existence but it's harder every year due to pollution and the encroachment of civilization.

Around 6,500 years ago, hunter-gatherer communities across Eurasia were settling down and living with livestock — and the animals’ diseases came along for the ride. A massive genomic analysis ...

Hunter-gatherers made the long trip there 1,000 years before agricultural societies arrived. ... these animals were not driven to extinction until several hundreds or thousands of years later, ...

Seafaring hunter-gatherers were accessing remote, small islands such as Malta thousands of years before the arrival of the first farmers, a new international study has found. Published in Nature ...

Evidence shows that hunter-gatherers were crossing at least 100 kilometers (km) of open water to reach the Mediterranean island of Malta 8,500 years ago, a thousand years before the arrival of the ...