Sentences with phrase «early human hunter»

Unlike early human hunter - gatherer groups, Neanderthals concentrated almost entirely on hunting big game, as evidenced by the abundance of large animal bones in Neanderthal archaeological sites.

Not exact matches

If King's conception of the Deity or deities that inhabit our solar system is that possessed by a primitive tribe of hunter - gatherers or by one of the earliest of civilizations, one of half - human gods (chimeras) or monsters, little concerned with the fate of humanity, both capricious and threatening («As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport»), that is interesting from an anthropological perspective, but what does it have to do with «first things»?

Modern hunter - gatherer societies typically have territories of 12 to 25 miles in diameter, and researchers believe early human groups had similar ranges.

For example, research on children's play in extant hunter - gatherer societies, and evolutionary psychology studies of other mammalian young, have identified play as an adaptation that enabled early humans to become powerful learners and problem - solvers.

As early humans expanded beyond hunter - gatherer groups, religion was the glue that held societies full of strangers together, says Ara Norenzayan

An international consortium led by researchers from the University of Tübingen and Harvard Medical School analyzed ancient human genomes from a ~ 7,000 - year - old early farmer from the LBK culture from Stuttgart in Southern Germany, a ~ 8,000 - year - old hunter - gatherer from the Loschbour rock shelter in Luxembourg, and seven ~ 8,000 - year - old hunter - gatherers from Motala in Sweden.

Fossil hunters continually scour northern Europe for convincing proof of early human habitation.

Although meat eating helped to shape the evolution of human brains, behavior and toolmaking, our early ancestors seem to have been better scavengers than hunters

Boyden describes four ecological phases of human existence: hunter - gatherer, early farming, early urban and modern high - energy.

Archaeologists have shed new light on the belief systems of early Mesolithic hunter - gatherers after analysing cremated remains and artefacts given as grave offerings from the earliest recorded human burial site in Ireland.

Many anthropologists have assumed, based on observations of sometimes polygamous modern - day hunter - gatherers, that the basic social unit of early humans was the band or tribe rather than the family.

By providing stable access to human shelter and food, hunter - gatherers led house mice down the path to commensalism, an early phase of domestication in which a species learns how to benefit from human interaction.

It suggests that the early hunter - gatherer settlements transformed ecological interactions and food webs, allowing house mice that benefited from human settlements to out - compete wild mice and establish themselves as the dominant population.

Food sources of the early hunter - gatherer humans of the Paleolithic Age included both animals and plants that were part of the natural environment in which these humans lived, often animal organ meats, including the liver, kidneys, and brains.

The plot involves the clash of early, simple hunters and gatherers with the arrival of more advanced bipeds in the form of those humans who have advanced firmly into the Bronze Age.

Early inhabitants Human occupation of the Muskegon area goes back seven or eight thousand years to the nomadic Paleo - Indian hunters who occupied the area following the retreat of the Wisconsonian glaciations.