Intriguing Ket People – The Last Nomadic Hunter-Gatherers Of Siberia
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Today, there are no more than 1,088 Ket people left. Only a few of them are Native speakers who master the Ket language. The rest speak Russian. The Ket people, who have their home in the Yenisei River basin, are the last nomadic hunter-gatherers of Siberia, a part of Asia […]
Shattering The Myth Of Men As Hunters And Women As Gatherers
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Analysis of data from dozens of foraging societies around the world shows that women hunt in at least 79% of these societies, opposing the widespread belief that men exclusively hunt and women exclusively gather. A common belief holds that, among foraging populations, men have typically hunted animals while women gathered […]
How Did Hunter-Gatherers Spread Knowledge Of Pottery Vast Distances Over A Short Period Of Time?
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Analysis of more than 1,200 vessels from hunter-gatherer sites has shown that pottery-making techniques spread vast distances over a short period of time through the transmission of social traditions. The team, which includes researchers from the University of York and the British Museum, analyzed the remains of 1,226 pottery vessels from 156 […]
Our Understanding Of Human Prehistory And Societies Is Wrong – Scientists Say
AncientPages.com – In many popular accounts of human prehistory, civilization emerged in a linear fashion. Our ancestors started as Paleolithic hunter-gatherers living in small, nomadic and egalitarian bands. Later, they discovered farming and domesticated animals for food and service. Before long, they progressed to complex societies and the beginnings of the modern nation-state. Social hierarchies […]
Hunter-Gatherers Used Open Habitats Millennia Before Stonehenge Monuments Were Built
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Hunter-gatherers made use of open woodland conditions in the millennia before Stonehenge monuments were built, according to a new study. Much research has explored Bronze Age and Neolithic history of the region surrounding Stonehenge, but less is known about earlier times in this area. This leaves open questions about how […]