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The psychology of sharing: an evolutionary approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This thesis takes an evolutionary perspective on human psychology. To the extent that inherited tendencies shape behaviour, their design will be fitted to the social environments prevailing as Homo sapiens evolved, in foraging groups, the nearest ...
Erdal, David Edward
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Further notes on Mesolithic-Neolithic contacts in the Iron Gates Region and the Central Balkans

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2006
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
doaj   +1 more source

Inferring the demographic history of African farmers and pygmy hunter-gatherers using a multilocus resequencing data set. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS Genetics, 2009
The transition from hunting and gathering to farming involved a major cultural innovation that has spread rapidly over most of the globe in the last ten millennia.
Etienne Patin   +14 more
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Cultural transmission among hunter-gatherers. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A
We examine from whom children learn in mobile hunter-gatherers, a way of life that characterized much of human history. Recent studies on the modes of transmission in hunter-gatherers are reviewed before presenting an analysis of five modes of ...
Hewlett BS   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Archaeology and the Social Sciences

open access: yesSuomen Antropologi, 2008
Although aspects of the social organization of Neolithic (c. 5100–1800 calBC) hunter-fisher-gatherer societies1 in Finland have been referenced in archaeological literature since the early twentieth century (see e.g.
Sanna Kivimäki
doaj   +1 more source

Life before Stonehenge: The hunter-gatherer occupation and environment of Blick Mead revealed by sedaDNA, pollen and spores.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2022
The Neolithic and Bronze Age construction and habitation of the Stonehenge Landscape has been extensively explored in previous research. However, little is known about the scale of pre-Neolithic activity and the extent to which the later monumental ...
Samuel M Hudson   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Before Rice and the First Rice: Archaeobotanical Study in Ha Long Bay, Northern Vietnam

open access: yesFrontiers in Earth Science, 2022
Mainland Southeast Asia experienced a long, sustained period of foraging economy before rice and millet farming spread into this area prior to 4,000 years BP.
Weiwei Wang   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Organic residue analysis shows sub-regional patterns in the use of pottery by Northern European hunter–gatherers [PDF]

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2020
The introduction of pottery vessels to Europe has long been seen as closely linked with the spread of agriculture and pastoralism from the Near East. The adoption of pottery technology by hunter–gatherers in Northern and Eastern Europe does not fit this ...
Blandine Courel   +26 more
doaj   +1 more source

Teaching in hunter–gatherer infancy [PDF]

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2016
A debate exists as to whether teaching is part of human nature and central to understanding culture or whether it is a recent invention of Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, Democratic cultures.
Barry S. Hewlett, Casey J. Roulette
doaj   +1 more source

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