Holocene Foragers and Interethnic Trade: A Critique of the Myth of Isolated Independent Hunter-Gatherers [PDF]
It is popularly thought that today's existing hunter-gatherers lived until recently in isolation, independent of food-producing peoples. The present thesis takes a different view, proposing that middle-to-late Holocene foragers followed an economy based ...
Headland, Thomas N., Reid, Lawrence A.
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Recent acquisition of Helicobacter pylori by Baka Pygmies [PDF]
Both anatomically modern humans and the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori originated in Africa, and both species have been associated for at least 100,000 years. Seven geographically distinct H.
AB Migliano +73 more
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Coastal hunter-gatherers and social evolution: marginal or central? [PDF]
General accounts of global trends in world prehistory are dominated by narratives of conquest on land: scavenging and hunting of land mammals, migration over land bridges and colonisation of new continents, gathering of plants, domestication, cultivation,
Bailey, G., Milner, N.
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A war-prone tribe migrated out of Africa to populate the world. [PDF]
Of the tribal hunter gatherers still in existence today, some lead lives of great violence, whereas other groups live in societies with no warfare and very little murder^1,2,3,4,5^.
Eduardo Moreno
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Reconstructing activity patterns in prehistoric Jomon people using long bone cross-sectional geometry [PDF]
Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on Aug. 18, 2010).The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the ...
Knobbe, Sharon, 1984-
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Farewell to the ‘childhood of man’: ritual, seasonality, and the origins of inequality [PDF]
Evidence of grand burials and monumental construction is a striking feature in the archaeological record of the Upper Palaeolithic period, between 40 and 10 kya (thousand years ago).
Acemoğlu +99 more
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Archaeologists, Hunter-Gatherers of Digital Data
The rapid advancement of digital technologies has paved the way for a revolution in archaeological documentation. Since digital cameras, tablets, portable printers, drones, and other technical gadgets have become readily available and easily replaceable,
Rafko Urankar +2 more
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The genetic prehistory of the Baltic Sea region [PDF]
Correction: Nature communications 9 (2018), art. no. 1494 doi:10.1038/s41467-018-03872-yWhile the series of events that shaped the transition between foraging societies and food producers are well described for Central and Southern Europe, genetic ...
Allmäe, Raili +21 more
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Late Pleistocene human genome suggests a local origin for the first farmers of central Anatolia
Central Anatolia harbored some of the earliest farming societies outside the Fertile Crescent of the Near East. Here, the authors report and analyze genome-wide data from a 15,000-year-old Anatolian hunter-gatherer and from seven Anatolian and Levantine ...
Michal Feldman +17 more
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Vertebrates from Cabeço dos Morros: a Mesolithic shell midden near Salvaterra de Magos, in the lower Tagus valley, Portugal [PDF]
This article discusses the vertebrate remains recovered from the Mesolithic shell midden of Cabeço dos Morros on the Magos River in the lower Tagus Valley, Portugal.
Detry, Cleia
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