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Pacifying Hunter-Gatherers [PDF]
Human Nature, 2019 There is a well-entrenched schism on the frequency (how often), intensity (deaths per 100,000/year), and evolutionary significance of warfare among hunter-gatherers compared with large-scale societies. To simplify, Rousseauians argue that warfare among prehistoric and contemporary hunter-gatherers was nearly absent and, if present, was a late cultural ...
Raymond Hames
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The Language of Hunter-Gatherers [PDF]
, 2020 Part I. Introductory Chapters: 1. Hunter-gatherer anthropology and language Tom Güldemann, Patrick McConvell and Richard Rhodes 2. Genetic landscape of present day hunter-gatherer groups Ellen Gunnasdóttir and Mark Stoneking 3. Linguistc typology and hunter-gatherer languages Balthasar Bickel and Johanna Nichols 4.
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Cultural transmission among hunter-gatherers [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of AmericaWe 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 ...
Sheina Lew-Levy +2 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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Teaching in hunter–gatherer infancy [PDF]
Royal 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
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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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A Review of Japanese Ecological Anthropology on Central African Hunter-gatherers
Revue d'ethnoécologie, 2021 Contemporary hunter-gatherers in central Africa face similar problems concerning their culture and environment: destruction of the forests that have been accommodating their unique forest-based culture, influences of market economy and consumerism, and ...
Mitsuo Ichikawa
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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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