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Hunter-Gatherer Olfaction Is Special [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent 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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The Language of Hunter-Gatherers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Hunter-gatherers are often portrayed as 'others' standing outside the main trajectory of human social evolution. But even after eleven millennia of agriculture and two centuries of widespread industrialization, hunter-gatherer societies continue to exist.
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The Biological Implications of the Transition to Agriculture in Ukraine: A Study of Enamel Hypoplasias

open access: yesDental Anthropology, 2014
The Tripolye were the first archaeological culture in Ukraine to cultivate domesticated cereals, practice animal husbandry, and establish large settlements with high population densities.
Jordan K. Karsten   +3 more
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Dental Microwear From Natufian Hunter-Gatherers and Early Neolithic Farmers: Comparisons Within and Between Samples [PDF]

open access: yes, 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 ...
Patrick Mahoney, Mahoney, Patrick
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Further notes on Mesolithic-Neolithic contacts in the Iron Gates Region and the Central Balkans

open access: yesDocumenta 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
doaj   +1 more source

Inferring the demographic history of African farmers and pygmy hunter-gatherers using a multilocus resequencing data set. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS 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
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Life before Stonehenge: The hunter-gatherer occupation and environment of Blick Mead revealed by sedaDNA, pollen and spores.

open access: yesPLoS 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   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hunter-Gatherers and the Origins of Religion [PDF]

open access: yesHuman 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
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Twenty Thousand-Year-Old Huts at a Hunter-Gatherer Settlement in Eastern Jordan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Ten thousand years before Neolithic farmers settled in permanent villages, hunter-gatherer groups of the Epipalaeolithic period (c. 22–11,600 cal BP) inhabited much of southwest Asia.
Stock, JT   +26 more
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Archaeology and the Social Sciences

open access: yesSuomen 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
doaj   +1 more source

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