Sentences with phrase «replacing hunter gatherer»
An article in Nature this week (read «Archaeology: The Milk Revolution») outlines the evidence and argues it is more likely than not this adaptation was carried by agricultural people (having domesticated animals and grains) moving into the area, replacing hunter gatherer peoples lacking this mutation.
http://www.becominghuman.org/ Not exact matches
«While a wave of farming peoples from the Near East replaced these hunter - gatherers, some of their lineages may have persisted longer in the far south of the Iberian peninsula and on off - shore islands and were then transported to the melting pot of Carthage in North Africa via Phoenician and Punic trade networks.»
The researchers suggest that the sheer scale of East Asia and dramatic variations in its climate may have prevented the sweeping influence of Neolithic agriculture and the accompanying migrations that replaced hunter - gatherers across much of Europe.
The findings tell a different story from what researchers believe happened later in Europe, when the first farmers moved in from Anatolia and largely replaced the hunter - gatherer populations who'd been living there.
And it significantly replaced the local hunter - gatherer genes across Europe with the indelible stamp of steppe DNA, as happened in Britain with the migration of the Bell Beaker people to the island.
There, Anatolian farmers from the Near East swept into Europe with a package of artifacts including tools, seeds, and domesticated animals, and replaced or interbred with the local hunter - gatherers 12,000 to 8000 years ago.
Recent discoveries, for example, have shown some incoming farmers coexisted with the hunter - gatherers already living in Europe rather than quickly replacing them.
Cordain's analyses found a range of 59 - 66 percent of saturated in the depot fat that hunter - gatherers relished, but he advises his readers to cut all the fat off our meat and replace butter and lard with olive oil, flaxseed oil, walnut oil, canola oil, mustard seed oil or avocado oil, because these oils contain «heart - healthy» monounsaturated fatty acids.
As farming gradually spread, settled communities referred to as Neolithic gradually replaced the hunter - gatherer lifestyle.