NEWS 09 July 2025 Animal diseases leapt to humans when we started keeping livestock When hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.

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

Mediterranean hunter gatherers navigated long-distance sea journeys well before the first farmers Date: April 9, 2025 Source: Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology Summary: Evidence shows that ...

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, ...

Science Archaeology Cave discovery could rewrite 1,000 years of Mediterranean history Hunter-gatherers in the region may have taken to the open seas before farming. Andrew Paul Apr 9, 2025 11:00 ...