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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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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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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Evidence against the “anomalous-is-bad” stereotype in Hadza hunter gatherers [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 People have an “anomalous-is-bad” stereotype whereby they make negative inferences about the moral character of people with craniofacial anomalies like scars.
Clifford I. Workman +3 more
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Interbreeding between farmers and hunter-gatherers along the inland and Mediterranean routes of Neolithic spread in Europe [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsThe Neolithic (i.e., farming and stockbreeding) spread from the Near East across Europe since about 9000 years before the common era (BCE) until about 4000 yr BCE. It followed two main routes, namely a sea route along the northern Mediterranean coast and
Joaquim Fort, Joaquim Pérez-Losada
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Palaeogenomics of Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic European hunter-gatherers [PDF]
Nature, 2023 Cosimo Posth, He Yu, Hélène Rougier
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Ultra-deep sequencing of Hadza hunter-gatherers recovers vanishing gut microbes [PDF]
Cell, 2023 Matthew Carter +2 more
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Cultural transmission among hunter-gatherers [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of AmericaBarry S Hewlett +2 more
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Population interconnectivity over the past 120,000 years explains distribution and diversity of Central African hunter-gatherers [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022 Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias +2 more
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