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Violence and warfare in prehistoric Japan [PDF]

, 2017
The origins and consequences of warfare or largescale intergroup violence have been subject of long debate. Based on exhaustive surveys of skeletal remains for prehistoric hunter-gatherers and agriculturists in Japan, the present study examines levels of
Arimatsu, Yui, Matsugi, Takehiko, Matsumoto, Naoko, Nakagawa, Tomomi, Nakao, Hisashi, Tamura, Kohei   +5 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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Dental Microwear From Natufian Hunter-Gatherers and Early Neolithic Farmers: Comparisons Within and Between Samples [PDF]

, 2006
Microwear patterns from Natufian hunter-gatherers (12,500–10,250 bp) and early Neolithic (10,250–7,500 bp) farmers from northern Israel are correlated with location on facet nine and related to an archaeologically suggested change in food preparation ...
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Nutritional Status, Activity Pattern, and Dietary Intake among the Baka Hunter-gatherers in the Village Camps in Cameroon [PDF]

, 2000
The nutritional status of 75 male and 73female pygmy hunter-gatheres were surveyed as well as the daily physical activity, energy and intake of major nutrients, and total energy expenditure were examined for two married couples of the Baka hunter ...
KAWAMURA, Kyohei, SATO, Hiroaki, YAMAUCHI, Taro   +2 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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Life before Stonehenge: The hunter-gatherer occupation and environment of Blick Mead revealed by sedaDNA, pollen and spores.

PLoS ONE, 2022
The Neolithic and Bronze Age construction and habitation of the Stonehenge Landscape has been extensively explored in previous research. However, little is known about the scale of pre-Neolithic activity and the extent to which the later monumental ...
Samuel M Hudson, Ben Pears, David Jacques, Thierry Fonville, Paul Hughes, Inger Alsos, Lisa Snape, Andreas Lang, Antony Brown   +8 more
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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, Guillaume Laval, Luis B Barreiro, Antonio Salas, Ornella Semino, Silvana Santachiara-Benerecetti, Kenneth K Kidd, Judith R Kidd, Lolke Van der Veen, Jean-Marie Hombert, Antoine Gessain, Alain Froment, Serge Bahuchet, Evelyne Heyer, Lluís Quintana-Murci   +14 more
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Archaeology and the Social Sciences

Suomen Antropologi, 2008
Although aspects of the social organization of Neolithic (c. 5100–1800 calBC) hunter-fisher-gatherer societies1 in Finland have been referenced in archaeological literature since the early twentieth century (see e.g.
Sanna Kivimäki
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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, Kim Dung Nguyen, Hai Dang Le, Chunguang Zhao, Mike T. Carson, Xiaoyan Yang, Xiaoyan Yang, Xiaoyan Yang, Hsiao-chun Hung   +8 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, Harry K. Robson, Alexandre Lucquin, Ekaterina Dolbunova, Ester Oras, Kamil Adamczak, Søren H. Andersen, Peter Moe Astrup, Maxim Charniauski, Agnieszka Czekaj-Zastawny, Igor Ezepenko, Sönke Hartz, Jacek Kabaciński, Andreas Kotula, Stanisław Kukawka, Ilze Loze, Andrey Mazurkevich, Henny Piezonka, Gytis Piličiauskas, Søren A. Sørensen, Helen M. Talbot, Aleh Tkachou, Maryia Tkachova, Adam Wawrusiewicz, John Meadows, Carl P. Heron, Oliver E. Craig   +26 more
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