Sentences with phrase «nomadic hunters until»

The Botai's ancestors were nomadic hunters until they became the first - known culture to domesticate horses around 5,500 years ago, using horses for meat, milk, work and likely transportation.

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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.

Partly, too, it's because nomadic hunter - gatherers have to keep their children spaced at four - year intervals by infanticide and other means, since a mother must carry her toddler until it's old enough to keep up with the adults.

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.