Hunter-gatherer

For the costume party, I'm going as a hunter-gatherer and she's going as an archeology student.

A 9,000-year-old burial site in Peru has scientists rethinking ideas about gender roles in prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies.

Just as human beings went from the hunter-gatherer to the farmer's stage, Go, which initially was a simple game of capturing stones, became a complex system for conquering territory.

Half the population has the old hunter-gatherer genes for metabolizing glucose. This explains why diets are pure nonsense.

In our natural hunter-gatherer state, humans get along much better than under ancient or even modern agriculture.

In hunter-gatherer societies, people take care of each other.

The peoples who most recently inhabited the coast of South Texas were the Coahuiltecans and the Karankawas. Both were groups of interrelated nomadic hunter-gatherer bands that roamed the coast and inland for some distance.

He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.

[…] Wengrow and Graeber argue that the life of hunter-gatherers before widespread farming was nothing like “the drab abstractions of evolutionary theory,” which hold that early humans lived in small bands in which they acted almost entirely on instinct, either brutish (as in Hobbes) or egalitarian and innocent (as in Rousseau).

“DNA from hunter-gatherers is present at higher levels in Northeastern Europe, which means the region has an elevated genetic risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease,” Barrie said.