Archaeologists have discovered a Stone Age ‘kill site’ full of mammoth remains where ancient people used to herd the large mammals so they could be killed and butchered. The discovery was made ...

New studies suggest that dogs shared a hearth with early Stone Age humans and trotted beside ... an expert on the history of domestic mammals working at the Zoological Society of London.

Rodents appear to have been roasted for food by Stone Age people as early as 5,000 years ... Dr Jerry Herman, curator of mammals at National Museums of Scotland, said evidence from excavations ...

A carnivore, including many mammals, mostly eat meat or the flesh ... Dr Miki Ben-Dor and colleagues set out to investigate whether stone-age humans were specialised carnivores or were they ...

New research can now show what Stone Age people actually ate in southern ... and around 37 per cent from land mammals, such as wild boar and red deer, and scarcely three per cent from plants ...

making it a Stone Age weapon of mass destruction. The Clovis point may even have been behind the extinction of large ice age mammals such as the mammoth (see End of the Big Beasts). Clovis points ...