Abstract Theories of early cooperation in human society often draw from a small sample ethnographic studies surviving populations hunter–gatherers, most which are now sedentary. Borneo hunter–gatherers (Punan, Penan) have seldom figured comparative research because decades-old controversy about whether they the descendants farmers who adopted hunting and gathering way life. In 2018 we began an ...

Here we evaluate the hypothesis that during cold climatic phases, people and resources became increasingly packed along highland Lesotho's riverine corridors as viability of palatable grasslands for large mammal hunting on upland plateaus declined. These intensification efforts resulted in increased reliance lower-ranked aquatic (fish) with knock-on effects lithic technological organization. We...

The timing and motivation of prehistoric human expansion into the hinterland Tibetan Plateau (TP) is a widely debated scientific issue. Recent archaeological studies have brought forward predictions earliest occupation TP to late–Middle Pleistocene. However, massive did not appear until termination Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). spatio-temporal distribution hunter-gatherers on varies significantly...

Coastal prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Atlantic Iberia were particularly important to understanding Paleolithic human innovation and resilience. This study will focus on Middle Upper adaptations the Iberian border. Elements such as intensity diversity of marine foods, site location, distance shore, submerged platform, bathymetry are discussed for region between Gibraltar Gulf Biscay.

On the shoulders of giants: archaeology northwestern Europe. From its founding in 1918, Biologisch-Archaeologisch Instituut has carried out research on stone-age hunter-gatherers, start and development prehistoric farming communities, burial mounds settlements sandy soils, occupation terp-mound district. This article presents highlights a century-long history identifies current developments.

The analysis revealed that except for vitamin D, which would have been supplied by endogenous synthesis in hunter gatherers, it is entirely possible to consume a nutritionally balanced diet from contemporary foods that mimic the food groups and types available during the Paleolithic. Despite the elimination of two major food groups, the trace nutrient density of the experimental diet remained e...

Is psychology a scientifi c discipline of its own? Or is it the case, as Scott (1991) upheld, that “Psychology lacks a clear identity”? The latter is certainly the impression one gets reading Ludin (1979), who, in his opus titled “Theories and Systems of Psychology”, describes the emergence of psychology over the 20th century with retrospectively comical words that would perhaps best be used to...

By roughly 8,000 calendar years before the present (calBP), hunter-gatherers across a broad swath of north China had begun small-scale farming of broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) and foxtail millet (Setaria italica). According to traditional wisdom, this early millet farming evolved from the intensive hunter-gatherer adaptation represented by the late Pleistocene microblade tradition of nor...

In their letter, Dekel et al. (1) comment on our recent findings on the origin of house mice (Mus musculus domesticus) 15,000 y ago, ecological impacts of the first settled hunter-gatherers, and insights that this study provides on early domestication processes (2). They maintain that mice were parasitic with humans rather than commensal, and attracted by refuse and feeding opportunities in nom...

This paper presents the results of excavations conducted at Late Gravettian site Lubná VI in 2012 and 2018. is an exceptional example a short-term campsite, occupied between 27.5 27.1 ka cal BP. Due to specific location this site, area situated far from lithic raw material sources, archaeological remains offer rare possibility understand subsistence strategy highly mobile hunter-gatherers Pleis...