Stone tools and wild barley grains reveal pre-agricultural crop harvesting dating back 9,200 years inside a remote cave.

One of my favorite childhood storybooks followed an animal family through harvest to their mid-winter festival. I loved their ...

An archaeologist takes samples of pollen found in soil to understand the changing vegetation of a site: a companion technique to the authors' analysis of hazelnut shells. If we could stand in a ...

They are large for snails, with fully grown shells reaching up to nearly 10 inches. And they’re pretty. Their shells are often splotched with red or orange markings or deep amber striping curving ...

Only a very few animals use tools. Crows wield sticks to find food, chimps have fashioned primitive spears to hunt and dolphins in Australia have been spotted trapping fish in huge conch shells. Now, ...