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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"hunter-gatherers"”.
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Coastal resources and nutrition among Middle Stone Age hunter-gatherers in the Southwestern Cape
… resources available to Middle Stone Age hunter-gatherers in the southwestern Cape, and examines the role of coastal and terrestrial foods in the diets of early modern humans in the region. The collection, consumption and systematic discard of intertidal molluscs by prehistoric people is …
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Dental pathology and macrowear: a biocultural analysis of southern African holocene hunter-gatherers and hunter-herders
… demographic factors in southern African Holocene hunter-gatherers and -herders (sAHGH). This is the first study to investigate inter-related implications of diet, health, and behaviour across time and space using only teeth on a large sAHGH sample. This aim was accomplished through a systematic …
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The Tongue River Bison Jump (24RB2135): The Technological Organization of Late Prehistoric Period Hunter-Gatherers in Southeastern Montana
Bison hunting has long been recognized as a key element of the lifeways of American Indians of the Northwestern Plains. Bison served as an integral component for food, shelter, tools, and clothing. It is no surprise that the importance bison hunting, as a socioeconomic institution, is revealed in …
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The Tongue River Bison Jump (24RB2135): The Technological Organization of Late Prehistoric Period Hunter-Gatherers in Southeastern Montana
Bison hunting has long been recognized as a key element of the lifeways of American Indians of the Northwestern Plains. Bison served as an integral component for food, shelter, tools, and clothing. It is no surprise that the importance bison hunting, as a socioeconomic institution, is revealed in …
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Fibre Production Among the Coastal Hunter-gatherers of South America’s West Coast: New Narratives from Plant Fibre Technologies
… ‘technological tradition’ among the coastal hunter-gatherers of the Preceramic Period. Furthermore, this research shows that new elements were being added to fibre production, such as camelid hair and various pigments near the end of the Preceramic Period, which coincided with the appearance …
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An archaeological investigation of the Koichab River region of the south-western Namib Desert centred on the activities of Holocene hunter-gatherers
… The sites studied are those of Holocene hunter-gatherers. Included are the analyses of archaeological remains from two excavations and three surface collections. The investigations resulted in the recovery of the oldest dated archaeological material from the entire Namib coast, and the …
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Considering the importance of wetlands to hunter-gatherer adaptation : a microbotanical investigation of Late Pleistocene plant-use in the Eastern Levant
… (ca. 28-14.5 ka cal. BP) (Late Pleistocene) hunter-gatherers, influencing the ways they chose to use, modify and manage the changing Levantine landscape through and after the Last Glacial Maximum (ca. 28-19 ka cal. BP). The main objective of this dissertation is to employ phytolith and …
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An Ancient Genomic Perspective of Kinship, Disease and Environment
… This focuses upon considering mid-Holocene hunter-gatherers at Lake Baikal 8000-3000 years ago. Following an Introduction, the second thesis chapter presents a detailed discussion of the progress, current state and future potential of biomolecular archaeology (now a volume chapter in the …
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An archaeological, anthropological study of the human skeletal remains from the Oakhurst Rockshelter, George, Cape Province, Southern Africa
… agro/pastoralists are more stressed than the hunter gatherers who preceded t hem. This is evinced by mortality profiles, mean age at death and the number and extent of stressors observed in the skeleton such as enamel hypoplasiae, porotic hyperostosis and Harris lines. Agriculturalists and …
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European impacts on the Seacow River valley and its hunter-gatherer inhabitants, AD. 1770-1900
… eighteenth century, they encountered Bushmen hunter-gatherers who were already occupying the land. The impact which these Europeans had on one geographical region, the Seacow River valley in the north-east Karoo region, and on the hunter-gatherers living there, form the basic theme of this …
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Architecture and/in place: Studying the physical and contextual connection between buildings and landscape
… applied to the design of a museum for the San hunter-gatherers that dwelled in Elands Bay in the Western Cape thousands of years ago. The early history of the San hunter-gatherers mainly exists in university collections and museums outside Elands Bay. This contrasts with the surrounding …
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Canine dental microwear and light stable isotopic analyses of some South African holocene populations
… populations based on isotopic analyses. Coastal hunter-gatherer populations from Matjes River and Oakhurst subsisted largely on a diet of marine foods, supplemented by C3 or C4 terrestrial resources. K2 agriculturalists indicated diets based largely on the exploitation of domesticated stock …
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Changing social landscapes of the Western Cape coast of southern Africa over the last 4500 years
… presents a reinterpretation of the late-Holocene hunter-gatherer archaeology of the Eland's Bay and Lambert's Bay areas of the western Cape. Marked changes in settlement, and subsistence over the last 4500 years had been previously suggested as having resulted from external factors, such as the …
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A cross-cultural investigation of learning among Hadza and BaYaka hunter- gatherer children and adolescents from Tanzania and Congo
… diversity in, and evolution of, human cultures. Hunter-gatherers may be especially important to study knowledge transmission because these populations are culturally distinct from Western societies, and because hunting and gathering is the oldest human subsistence strategy. Thus, hunter- …
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The role of seals in coastal hunter-gatherer lifeways at Robberg, South Africa
Seals were a major dietary item for coastal hunter-gatherers and herders in South Africa. At Nelson Bay Cave (NBC), more than half of the Holocene mammal bones are from Cape Fur seals (Arctocephalus pusillus). Previous analyses of the seal assemblage from this site have studied only selected …
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Strangers to brothers : interaction between south-eastern San and southern Nguni/Sotho communities
… the forms of relationships established between hunter-gatherers and their non-forager neighbours and whether relationships which are documented as having been established significantly affected these hunter-gatherer societies. In southern Africa, particular attention has been paid to the effects …
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Temporal change in the Namibian Ju|’hoansi intestinal microbiome
… evolution of the human IM, pristine ancestral hunter-gatherer IM samples are near-impossible to acquire. Alternatively, studying contemporary hunter-gatherers might allow us to gain insight into the pre-Industrial human IM. The Ju|’hoansi hunter-gatherers of Namibia are in transition to an …
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A HUMAN BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE YELLOWSTONE LAKE BASIN, YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING
… Lake Basin has been an important region for hunter-gatherers since the close of the Late Pleistocene that has provided an abundance and well diverse suite of subsistence resources ( i.e prey animals and edible plants). Due the diversity found within this ecosystem, the primary objective of …
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A HUMAN BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE YELLOWSTONE LAKE BASIN, YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING
… Lake Basin has been an important region for hunter-gatherers since the close of the Late Pleistocene that has provided an abundance and well diverse suite of subsistence resources ( i.e prey animals and edible plants). Due the diversity found within this ecosystem, the primary objective of …
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Paleoindian technological provisioning in the western Great Basin
… mobile foragers. By contrast, "Paleoarchaic" hunter-gatherers of the Great Basin are thought to have become increasingly sedentary through time, specially adapted and tethered to diverse lacustrine/marsh resources; My research project aims to understand human adaptation during the early …
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