Deep ancestry of collapsing networks of nomadic hunter–gatherers in Borneo [PDF]
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2022 Theories of early cooperation in human society often draw from a small sample of ethnographic studies of surviving populations of hunter–gatherers, most of which are now sedentary. Borneo hunter–gatherers (Punan, Penan) have seldom figured in comparative
J. Stephen Lansing +9 more
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What made us “hunter-gatherers of words” [PDF]
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023 This paper makes three interconnected claims: (i) the “human condition” cannot be captured by evolutionary narratives that reduce it to a recent ‘cognitive modernity', nor by narratives that eliminates all cognitive differences between us and out closest
Cedric Boeckx +2 more
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Evidence against the “anomalous-is-bad” stereotype in Hadza hunter gatherers [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 People have an “anomalous-is-bad” stereotype whereby they make negative inferences about the moral character of people with craniofacial anomalies like scars.
Clifford I. Workman +3 more
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Interbreeding between farmers and hunter-gatherers along the inland and Mediterranean routes of Neolithic spread in Europe [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsThe Neolithic (i.e., farming and stockbreeding) spread from the Near East across Europe since about 9000 years before the common era (BCE) until about 4000 yr BCE. It followed two main routes, namely a sea route along the northern Mediterranean coast and
Joaquim Fort, Joaquim Pérez-Losada
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A Review of Japanese Ecological Anthropology on Central African Hunter-gatherers
Revue d'ethnoécologie, 2021 Contemporary hunter-gatherers in central Africa face similar problems concerning their culture and environment: destruction of the forests that have been accommodating their unique forest-based culture, influences of market economy and consumerism, and ...
Mitsuo Ichikawa
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Relatedness within and between Agta residential groups
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2021 Theoretical models relating to the evolution of human behaviour usually make assumptions about the kinship structure of social groups. Since humans were hunter–gatherers for most of our evolutionary history, data on the composition of contemporary hunter–
Mark Dyble +3 more
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Future Discounting in Congo Basin Hunter-Gatherers Declines with Socio-Economic Transitions. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Humans have a tendency to discount the future; that is we value small, short-term rewards over larger, long-term rewards. The degree of future discounting, however, changes in response to socio-ecological factors.
Gul Deniz Salali +1 more
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Different Paths of Neolithisation of the North-Eastern Part of Central Europe
Open Archaeology, 2021 Origins of the Neolithic in the north-eastern part of Central Europe were associated with migrations of groups of the Linear Pottery culture after the mid-sixth millennium BC, as in other parts of Central Europe.
Nowak Marek
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Complete mitochondrial genomes reveal neolithic expansion into Europe. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 The Neolithic transition from hunting and gathering to farming and cattle breeding marks one of the most drastic cultural changes in European prehistory.
Qiaomei Fu +3 more
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Incongruity between affinity patterns based on mandibular and lower dental dimensions following the transition to agriculture in the Near East, Anatolia and Europe. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 While it has been suggested that malocclusion is linked with urbanisation, it remains unclear as to whether its high prevalence began 8,000 years earlier concomitant with the transition to agriculture.
Ron Pinhasi +2 more
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