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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 Olfaction Is Special [PDF]
Current Biology, 2018 People struggle to name odors [1-4]. This has been attributed to a diminution of olfaction in trade-off to vision [5-10]. This presumption has been challenged recently by data from the hunter-gatherer Jahai who, unlike English speakers, find odors as easy to name as colors [4].
Majid, Asifa, Kruspe, Nicole
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Looking at the Camp: Paleolithic Depiction of a Hunter-Gatherer Campsite. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Landscapes and features of the everyday world were scarcely represented in Paleolithic art, especially those features associated with the human landscape (huts and campsites).
Marcos García-Diez, Manuel Vaquero
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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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Further notes on Mesolithic-Neolithic contacts in the Iron Gates Region and the Central Balkans
Documenta 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
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Recent origin and cultural reversion of a hunter-gatherer group.
PLoS Biology, 2005 Contemporary hunter-gatherer groups are often thought to serve as models of an ancient lifestyle that was typical of human populations prior to the development of agriculture.
Hiroki Oota +8 more
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Communications Biology, 2023 The Two Layer hypothesis is fast becoming the favoured narrative describing East Asian population history. Under this model, hunter-gatherer groups who initially peopled East Asia via a route south of the Himalayas were assimilated by agriculturalist ...
Matthew Silcocks, Sarah J. Dunstan
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Land, 2023 The problems regarding hunter-gatherer/early farmer interactions are quite an important topic in southeast European archaeology. According to the available data, the two economic subsistence systems have coexisted for some 2000 years during the 6th–4th ...
Dmytro Kiosak, Zhanna Matviishyna
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Open Archaeology, 2022 In archaeological hunter-gatherer research, animals are primarily seen as food. Alternatively, they are proposed to serve as symbols and devices for social structuring of human societies. A growing body of literature in humanities and social sciences now
Skandfer Marianne
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Does lateral transmission obscure inheritance in hunter-gatherer languages? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 In recent years, linguists have begun to increasingly rely on quantitative phylogenetic approaches to examine language evolution. Some linguists have questioned the suitability of phylogenetic approaches on the grounds that linguistic evolution is ...
Claire Bowern +6 more
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