Mesolithic projectile variability along the southern North Sea basin (NW Europe): Hunter-gatherer responses to repeated climate change at the beginning of the Holocene. [PDF]
This paper investigates how former hunter-gatherers living along the southern North Sea coast in NW Europe adapted to long-term and short-term climatic and environmental changes at the beginning of the Holocene.
Philippe Crombé
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Is There Such a Thing as Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology?
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.
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]
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
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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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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Violence and warfare in prehistoric Japan [PDF]
The origins and consequences of warfare or largescale intergroup violence have been subject of long debate. Based on exhaustive surveys of skeletal remains for prehistoric hunter-gatherers and agriculturists in Japan, the present study examines levels of
Arimatsu, Yui +5 more
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Dental Microwear From Natufian Hunter-Gatherers and Early Neolithic Farmers: Comparisons Within and Between Samples [PDF]
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 ...
Baker +113 more
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Nutritional Status, Activity Pattern, and Dietary Intake among the Baka Hunter-gatherers in the Village Camps in Cameroon [PDF]
The nutritional status of 75 male and 73female pygmy hunter-gatheres were surveyed as well as the daily physical activity, energy and intake of major nutrients, and total energy expenditure were examined for two married couples of the Baka hunter ...
KAWAMURA, Kyohei +2 more
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Further notes on Mesolithic-Neolithic contacts in the Iron Gates Region and the Central Balkans
Hunter-gatherer/farmer contact in the Iron Gates region is re-examined in view of recent archaeological research, and the social dynamics, population movements and interactions of small scale societies.
Ivana Radovanović
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