The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna may be people’s fault after all, according to a recent study. A team of archaeologists recently examined animal bones at sites dating to the waning years of ...

New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted natural mammal communities as profoundly as the Ice Age extinctions. Fossil ...

There has been a long-standing controversy about whether or not the first people to arrive in Australia more than 60,000 years ago were responsible for, or contributed through hunting to, the ...

The Caribbean islands have long served as natural laboratories for examining the interplay of climatic changes, sea‐level fluctuations and human impacts on insular faunas. During the Pleistocene, vast ...