The researchers said that previous evidence about the ownership of domestic animals by
hunter-gatherers has so far been circumstantial.
"The peopling of Amazonia and the adaptive strategies of its early inhabitants are among the least known aspects of the archaeology of the New World," the researchers added, "The existence of early
hunter-gatherer sites in the Bolivian lowlands sheds new light on the region's past."
Here, the team of researchers examined microliths small stone arrowheads/barbs used in hunting, to see how their design and usage by Mesolithic
hunter-gatherers shifted in conjunction with climatic and environmental changes.
It's as if no-one from the
hunter-gatherer village went to bring the offender back, so they are left to fend for themselves as a permanent outsider.
Both teams obtained the same striking result: Iberian
hunter-gatherers had a remarkable mix of genes, showing that they descended from two profoundly distinct groups of early European
hunter-gatherers.
" class="MsoNormalWHAT THEY EAT class="MsoNormalFor the new study, Pontzer and his colleagues analysed data on
hunter-gatherers and other small-scale societies across the globe, from South America to Africa and Australia.
Both HEabE1/4nhian
hunter-gatherers and East Asian farmers contributed to current Southeast Asian diversity, with further migrations affecting islands in South East Asia and Vietnam.
Part of the Troodos digs is to explore the area's environmental dynamics, which the antiquities department said must have greatly affected the decisions made by the
hunter-gatherer groups who seem to have visited this area frequently throughout the island's early prehistory (10,000 -- 6,000 BC).
According to the researchers, the crayon and the pebble show them more about how the
hunter-gatherers in Stone Age Britain created and used pigment.
As soon as
hunter-gatherers began settling down rather than roving from place to place, house mice began to edge out their wild counterparts, said the study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer-reviewed US journal.
The site forms a coherent, extensive and high-quality record of ritual practices relating to
hunter-gatherer communities in this part of southern Africa over at least 2,000 years, and eloquently illustrates the links between the ritual and economic practices of
hunter-gatherers.
Stones, Bones, and Profiles: Exploring Archaeological Context, Early American
Hunter-Gatherers, and Bison