hunter-gatherers Archive
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - While conducting a mineral survey on the Baltic Sea floor, scientists stumbled upon an unanticipated discovery that provided evidence of early European hunting
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Have scientists used the wrong term when referring to early humans as hunter-gatherers? According to new groundbreaking research, the answer is "yes," at
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Not in all places where agriculture appeared did local populations quickly notice its benefits. In the areas from present-day Lithuania to Finland, for about
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In a groundbreaking archaeological discovery, an international team of archaeologists from Freie Universität Berlin has uncovered fortified prehistoric settlements in a remote region
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Today, there are no more than 1,088 Ket people left. Only a few of them are Native speakers who master the Ket language.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Agriculture in Syria started with a bang 12,800 years ago as a fragmented comet slammed into the Earth's atmosphere. The explosion and subsequent
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Interpersonal violence was a consistent part of life in ancient hunter-gatherer communities on the Atacama Desert coast of northern Chile, according to a
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered and analyzed the first direct evidence of basketry among hunter-gatherer societies and early farmers in southern Europe (9,500 and 6,200
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Analysis of data from dozens of foraging societies around the world shows that women hunt in at least 79% of these societies, opposing
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have been interested in El Mirón cave for a long time, and over the years, many fascinating finds have been reported from
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com- When early Stone Age farmers first moved into Europe from the Near East about 8,000 years ago, they met and began mixing with the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Modern humans began to spread across Eurasia about 45,000 years ago. Still, previous research showed that the first modern humans that arrived in
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New research has revealed humans living on the Mediterranean coast 9,500 years ago may have relied more heavily on a fish diet than
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of archaeologists from the Universities of Chester and Manchester has made discoveries which shed new light on the communities who inhabited
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Mysterious ancient dots and stripes on European cave paintings have puzzled scientists for decades. It has been suggested these markings made by Ice
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Analysis of more than 1,200 vessels from hunter-gatherer sites has shown that pottery-making techniques spread vast distances over a short period of time
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AncientPages.com - In many popular accounts of human prehistory, civilization emerged in a linear fashion. Our ancestors started as Paleolithic hunter-gatherers living in small, nomadic and egalitarian bands.
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Examination of a fossilized skull of a hunter-gatherer who lived about 100,000 years ago in Morroco shows the individual suffered from vertigo and
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Hunter-gatherers made use of open woodland conditions in the millennia before Stonehenge monuments were built, according to a new study. Much research has
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A well-preserved Palaeolithic site in northern China reveals a new and previously unidentified set of cultural innovations. When did populations of Homo sapiens
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Now, we can learn more about the culinary traditions of prehistoric hunter-gatherers that lived in the Baltic region as far back as 7,000
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AncientPages.com - The introduction of agriculture into Europe about 8,500 years ago changed the way people lived right down to their DNA. Now, an international team reports in Nature that researchers
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