A 14,000-year-old toolkit that may have been used to hunt big game has been found in Scotland, according to a report in British Archaeology. The tools were probably used by hunters who migrated across a large land bridge connecting Great Britain to mainland Europe.   BBC News also has an article on the “earliest Scots.” Some 70,000 […]

American Indians began farming in eastern North America at least 3,800 years ago, even though wild food was plentiful. Evidence of five different cultivated plants has been discovered at the Riverton site in Illinois. Brian Redmond of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in Ohio says that this “crop complex” may have “added to what […]