Sentences with phrase «from nomadic hunter»

There was a Nat Geo special not long ago that credited the transition of humans from nomadic hunter / gatherers to farming and communal living to the domestication of the dog.

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These examples are crucial, Fry says, because our ancestors are thought to have lived as nomadic hunter - gatherers from the emergence of the Homo lineage just over 2 million years ago in Africa until the appearance of agriculture and permanent settlements about 12,000 years ago.

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.

Until now, researchers have primarily thought that farmers entering Europe from the east either drove out hunter - gatherers or quickly drew nomadic groups into a lifestyle of crop growing and animal raising.

Another possibility, Allaby says, is that the nomadic hunter - gatherers of southern Britain roamed much farther into the European mainland than previously realized, picked up wheat or wheat products from farmers to the east, and brought them back to Britain.

Both the Coastal Eskimo Dog and the Alaskan Interior Village Dog descended from the ancient dogs of nomadic hunter gathers that used the Bering Land Bridge to migrate across the Bering Strait into Alaska over 14,000 years ago.