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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Is There Such a Thing as Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology?
Heritage, 2021 This paper examines two related questions: firstly, whether there is a distinctive field of practice that might be called “hunter-gatherer archaeology” and which is different than other kinds of archaeology, and secondly, how such a claim might be ...
Graeme Warren
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A three-population wave-of-advance model for the European early Neolithic.
PLoS ONE, 2020 Ancient DNA studies have shown that early farming spread through most of Europe by the range expansion of farmers of Anatolian origin rather than by the conversion to farming of the local hunter-gatherers, and have confirmed that these hunter-gatherers ...
Kenichi Aoki
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Polygyny without wealth: popularity in gift games predicts polygyny in BaYaka Pygmies [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2015 The occurrence of polygynous marriage in hunter–gatherer societies, which do not accumulate wealth, remains largely unexplored since resource availability is dependent on male hunting capacity and limited by the lack of storage. Hunter–gatherer societies
Nikhil Chaudhary +7 more
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Agta hunter–gatherer oral microbiomes are shaped by contact network structure
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2023 Here we investigate the effects of extensive sociality and mobility on the oral microbiome of 138 Agta hunter–gatherers from the Philippines. Our comparisons of microbiome composition showed that the Agta are more similar to Central African BaYaka hunter–
Federico Musciotto +15 more
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Dental Anthropology, 2014 The Tripolye were the first archaeological culture in Ukraine to cultivate domesticated cereals, practice animal husbandry, and establish large settlements with high population densities.
Jordan K. Karsten +3 more
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Dental Microwear From Natufian Hunter-Gatherers and Early Neolithic Farmers: Comparisons Within and Between Samples [PDF]
, 2006 Microwear patterns from Natufian hunter-gatherers (12,500–10,250 bp) and early Neolithic (10,250–7,500 bp) farmers from northern Israel are correlated with location on facet nine and related to an archaeologically suggested change in food preparation ...
Patrick Mahoney, Mahoney, Patrick
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Living the high life: the early arrival of hunter-gatherers in the glaciated Ethiopian Highlands [PDF]
, 2020 High mountains around the globe have long been thought to represent pristine ecosystems that have been reshaped by humans quite late in the earth's history.
Groos, Alexander R.
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Twenty Thousand-Year-Old Huts at a Hunter-Gatherer Settlement in Eastern Jordan [PDF]
, 2012 Ten thousand years before Neolithic farmers settled in permanent villages, hunter-gatherer groups of the Epipalaeolithic period (c. 22–11,600 cal BP) inhabited much of southwest Asia.
Stock, JT +26 more
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The language of Hunter-Gatherers [PDF]
, 2020 Hunter-gatherers are often portrayed as 'others' standing outside the main trajectory of human social evolution. But even after eleven millennia of agriculture and two centuries of widespread industrialization, hunter-gatherer societies continue to exist.
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