Palaeogenomics of Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic European hunter-gatherers. [PDF]
Nature, 2023 Combined analysis of new genomic data from 116 ancient hunter-gatherer individuals together with previously published data provides insights into the genetic structure and demographic shifts of west Eurasian forager populations over a period of 30,000 ...
Posth C +124 more
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The transmission of pottery technology among prehistoric European hunter-gatherers. [PDF]
Nat Hum Behav, 2023 Human history has been shaped by global dispersals of technologies, although understanding of what enabled these processes is limited. Here, we explore the behavioural mechanisms that led to the emergence of pottery among hunter-gatherer communities in ...
Dolbunova E +43 more
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Cultural transmission among hunter-gatherers. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S ASignificance Cultural evolutionary theories have stimulated substantial research on from whom hunter-gatherers learn. Nine modes of cultural transmission are examined among Congo Basin and other hunter-gatherer groups.
Hewlett BS +4 more
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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]
PLoS ONE, 2019 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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Genomic ancestry and social dynamics of the last hunter-gatherers of Atlantic France. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S ASignificance Since the early Holocene, western and central Europe was inhabited by a genetically distinct group of hunter-gatherers. We generated different types of biomolecular data, including deep coverage complete genome sequencing, from human ...
Simões LG +12 more
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Organic residue analysis shows sub-regional patterns in the use of pottery by Northern European hunter–gatherers [PDF]
Royal 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
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Deep ancestry of collapsing networks of nomadic hunter–gatherers in Borneo [PDF]
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2022 Theories of early cooperation in human society often draw from a small sample of ethnographic studies of surviving populations of hunter–gatherers, most of which are now sedentary. Borneo hunter–gatherers (Punan, Penan) have seldom figured in comparative
J. Stephen Lansing +9 more
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What made us “hunter-gatherers of words” [PDF]
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023 This paper makes three interconnected claims: (i) the “human condition” cannot be captured by evolutionary narratives that reduce it to a recent ‘cognitive modernity', nor by narratives that eliminates all cognitive differences between us and out closest
Cedric Boeckx +2 more
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Ultra-deep Sequencing of Hadza Hunter-Gatherers Recovers Vanishing Gut Microbes
bioRxiv, 2022 The gut microbiome has been identified as a key to immune and metabolic health, especially in industrialized populations1. Non-industrialized individuals harbor more diverse microbiomes and distinct bacterial lineages2, but systemic under-sampling has ...
Merrill BD +11 more
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Why are population growth rate estimates of past and present hunter-gatherers so different? [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2021 Hunter–gatherer population growth rate estimates extracted from archaeological proxies and ethnographic data show remarkable differences, as archaeological estimates are orders of magnitude smaller than ethnographic and historical estimates.
Tallavaara M, Jørgensen EK.
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