Hunter-Gatherer Children’s Object Play and Tool Use: An Ethnohistorical Analysis [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Learning to use, make, and modify tools is key to our species’ success. Researchers have hypothesized that play with objects may have a foundational role in the ontogeny of tool use and, over evolutionary timescales, in cumulative technological ...
Sheina Lew-Levy +4 more
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Hunter–gatherer foraging networks promote information transmission [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 Central-place foraging (CPF), where foragers return to a central location (or home), is a key feature of hunter–gatherer social organization. CPF could have significantly changed hunter–gatherers’ spatial use and mobility, altered social networks and ...
Ketika Garg +3 more
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Where innovations flourish: an ethnographic and archaeological overview of hunter–gatherer learning contexts [PDF]
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2020 Research in developmental psychology suggests that children are poor tool innovators. However, such research often overlooks the ways in which children's social and physical environments may lead to cross-cultural variation in their opportunities and ...
Sheina Lew-Levy +4 more
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Hunter–gatherer genetics research: Importance and avenues [PDF]
Evolutionary Human SciencesMajor developments in the field of genetics in the past few decades have revolutionised notions of what it means to be human. Although currently only a few populations around the world practise a hunting and gathering lifestyle, this mode of subsistence ...
Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias, Inez Derkx
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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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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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Genome of a middle Holocene hunter-gatherer from Wallacea. [PDF]
Nature, 2021 Much remains unknown about the population history of early modern humans in southeast Asia, where the archaeological record is sparse and the tropical climate is inimical to the preservation of ancient human DNA1.
Carlhoff S +27 more
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Global hunter-gatherer population densities constrained by influence of seasonality on diet composition. [PDF]
Nat Ecol Evol, 2021 The dependence of hunter-gatherers on local net primary production (NPP) to provide food played a major role in shaping long-term human population dynamics.
Zhu D +3 more
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Camp stability predicts patterns of hunter–gatherer cooperation [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 Humans regularly cooperate with non-kin, which has been theorized to require reciprocity between repeatedly interacting and trusting individuals. However, the role of repeated interactions has not previously been demonstrated in explaining real-world ...
Daniel Smith +9 more
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Hunter-Gatherer Children at School: A View From the Global South
Review of Educational Research, 2022 Universal formal education is a major global development goal. Yet hunter-gatherer communities have extremely low participation rates in formal schooling, even in comparison with other marginalized groups.
Velina Ninkova +6 more
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