Sentences with phrase «during hunter gatherer»

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Religion was invented by human beings during the Neolithic period, that's the time frame where humans went from roaming hunter gatherer groups to small permanent farming villages.

Given that highly affectionate parenting practices are similar to the practices anthropologists believe parents used during the thousands of years that humans lived in hunter - gatherer societies, it's likely that they are closely matched with what a developing baby's brain naturally expects.

Freed from the need to transport their babies during a nomadic existence, and under pressure to produce more hands to till the fields, farming women tended to have more frequent pregnancies than their hunter - gatherer counterparts — with consequent drains on their health.

The remaining half could be even more important: How did an apex predator, a direct competitor for resources during our hunter - gatherer days, become our best friend?

According to Reich, one speculative scenario is that during this long, drawn - out interaction, there was a social or power dynamic in which farmer women tended to be integrated into hunter - gatherer communities.

During the hunter - gatherer phase humanity utilised no more than 0.0001 per cent of the available photosynthesised solar energy.

The earliest indications of lactase persistence to date were found among farmers in Spain during the Late Neolithic (approx. 3000 BC; 27 percent with lactase persistence) and Scandinavian hunter - gatherers (5 percent with lactase persistence).

There are tantalizing hints of feasting among Paleolithic hunter - gatherers perhaps as early as 20,000 years ago, but the practice became common only during the Neolithic (early farming) period beginning about 10,000 years ago.

Led by Thomas Cucchi of National Center for Scientific Research in Paris, France, and Lior Weissbrod of the University of Haifa in Israel, the study set out to explain large swings in the ratio of house mice to wild mice populations found during excavations of different prehistoric periods at an ancient Natufian hunter - gatherer site in the Jordan Valley of Israel.

The Patagonian Paleo - Indians were nomadic hunter - gatherers who spent the winters in the lowlands and migrated during the summer to the central highlands of Patagonia and the Andes Mountains.

The researchers also believe that this DNA sequencing can help them to understand why the hunter - gatherer way of life was neglected during this time.

«During this period, it seems likely that hunter - gatherers were not migrating such long distances, but our knowledge is not complete.»

In addition, the data reveal that this was a more genetically diverse population than the central and western European hunter - gatherers living during the same epoch and that they also show pattern of adaptation to high latitude environments, including high frequencies of low pigmentation variants as well as a gene region associated with physical performance, which shows strong continuity into modern - day northern Europeans.

This basically means that many hunter - gatherer groups subsisted heavily on animal protein, which is rich in sulfur - containing amino acids that increase the production and excretion of sulfuric acid during their metabolism.

Thousands of years ago, this process was a tried - and - true survival method, as much work went into finding fatty foods during the hunter - gatherer days.

Archeological sites reveal that people during this period were shorter and showed signs of bone loss (Cohen, 1989; Larsen, 2003) compared to their hunter - gatherer ancestors.

The diet, which first emerged in the 1970s but wasn't popularised until the early 2000s, involves eating modern foods that attempt to mimic the food groups we think our hunter - gatherer ancestors ate during the Paleolithic era, from about 2.6 million years ago to the beginning of the Agricultural Revolution, about 10,000 years ago.

During the ensuing Holocene (10000 y ago until the present), cereal grains were rarely consumed as year round staples by most worldwide hunter - gatherers (32,33), except by certain groups living in arid and marginal environments (32,34).

Studies of contemporary hunter - gatherers show that gathered honey represented a relatively minor dietary component over the course of a year, despite high intakes in some groups during short periods of availability.

During the Paleolithic period, the hunter - gatherer model of human society was a necessary survival tool in an untamed and unforgiving environment.

Since then, humans have enjoyed a long parallel history with dogs during our own progression from hunter - gatherers and then farmers, to modern city dwellers.

A hunter - gatherer's ATM is the familiar understanding they possess of the landscape, the seasons and what grows where during different seasons.

Perhaps the best known of these journeys took place between 12,000 and 15,000 years ago, when Ice Age hunter - gatherers migrated across the Bering Land Bridge — an isthmus exposed by retreating ocean levels during the Ice Age — into today's Alaska.

The height of the culture during the 750-1300 is clearly above the hunter / gatherer level.

A new threat of starvation — probably during the millennium - long dry, cold «snap» known as the Younger Dryas about 13,000 years ago — prompted some hunter - gatherers in the Levant to turn much more vegetarian.

international Scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory are to be believed, our hunter - gatherer ancestors were experiencing something of an ecological disaster during this time - a large - scale environmental «Mega-drought» - which left animal and human lifeforms fighting for survival in an unforgiving climate amidst an agriculturally - redundant landscape.

I recently read that no group of hunters and gatherers or pastoralists has ever willingly transitioned to settled life, because it makes them easier to control and tax [1], and there is a vivid description of the violence and political machinations required to assert governance on others during creation of the Zulu kingdom in South Africa in Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus» book The Creation of Inequality [2].