Results 21 to 30 of about 940 (213)
Inferring the demographic history of African farmers and pygmy hunter-gatherers using a multilocus resequencing data set. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2009 The transition from hunting and gathering to farming involved a major cultural innovation that has spread rapidly over most of the globe in the last ten millennia.
Etienne Patin +14 more
doaj +1 more source
Hunter-Gatherers and the Origins of Religion [PDF]
Human Nature, 2016 Recent studies of the evolution of religion have revealed the cognitive underpinnings of belief in supernatural agents, the role of ritual in promoting cooperation, and the contribution of morally punishing high gods to the growth and stabilization of human society.
Peoples, Hervey C +2 more
openaire +3 more sources
Before Rice and the First Rice: Archaeobotanical Study in Ha Long Bay, Northern Vietnam
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 Mainland Southeast Asia experienced a long, sustained period of foraging economy before rice and millet farming spread into this area prior to 4,000 years BP.
Weiwei Wang +8 more
doaj +1 more source
Hunter-Gatherer Anthropology and Language [PDF]
, 2020 Foragers are often portrayed as “others” standing outside the main trajectory of human social evolution, which began with the Neolithic Revolution. In some forms of this narrative, foragers are static, left behind in the tide of history by their dynamic cousins, the farmers.
Güldemann, Tom +2 more
openaire +3 more sources
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
doaj +1 more source
Risk of resource failure and toolkit variation in small-scale farmers and herders. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Recent work suggests that global variation in toolkit structure among hunter-gatherers is driven by risk of resource failure such that as risk of resource failure increases, toolkits become more diverse and complex.
Mark Collard +3 more
doaj +1 more source
Social networks and cooperation in hunter-gatherers [PDF]
Nature, 2012 Social networks show striking structural regularities, and both theory and evidence suggest that networks may have facilitated the development of large-scale cooperation in humans. Here, we characterize the social networks of the Hadza, a population of hunter-gatherers in Tanzania.
Apicella, Coren L +3 more
openaire +4 more sources
PLoS ONE, 2012 Hunter-gatherers living in Europe during the transition from the late Pleistocene to the Holocene intensified food acquisition by broadening the range of resources exploited to include marine taxa.
Marcello A Mannino +11 more
doaj +1 more source
Emotion Perception in Hadza Hunter-Gatherers [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2018 AbstractIt has long been claimed that certain configurations of facial movements are universally recognized as emotional expressions because they evolved to signal emotional information in situations that posed fitness challenges for our hunting and gathering hominin ancestors.
Gendron, Maria +5 more
openaire +5 more sources
Hadza Men With Lower Voice Pitch Have a Better Hunting Reputation
Evolutionary Psychology, 2017 Previous research with hunter-gatherers has found that women perceive men with voices manipulated to be lower in pitch to be better hunters, and men perceive women with lower pitch to be better gatherers. Here, we test if actual voice pitch is associated
Kristopher M. Smith +3 more
doaj +1 more source