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  1. 12,900-year-old Epipaleolithic site found at Koskarlı Cave in Turkey

    Koskarlı Cave in Turkey has revealed an intact hunter-gatherer occupation dating to about 12,900 to 12,000 years ago. The find provides the first systematic evidence of Epipaleolithic occupation in the eastern Black Sea region...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2026/08/kos

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  2. How hunter-gatherers shaped early dogs for life in different environments

    Dogs lived beside humans thousands of years before modern breeds took shape. A new book traces how this long bond shaped both dogs and people. First Dogs: Hunter-Gatherers and their Canine Companions from Prehistory to the Present, by archaeologist Peter Mitchell, examines the long path from wolves to dogs

    More info: archaeologymag.com/2026/08/hun

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  3. Earliest known Mediterranean long-distance sea journeys continued for at least a millennium

    Hunter-gatherers sailed across more than 100 kilometers of open Mediterranean Sea thousands of years before farming reached Europe, according to a new study. The findings challenge a long-held idea about the sea travel skills of Europe’s last hunter-gatherers...

    More info: archaeologymag.com/2026/07/ear

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  4. 7,000-year-old fish traps show hunter-gatherers brought fish to Norway’s mountains centuries before farming

    Seven thousand-year-old wooden fish traps found in southern Norway are changing views of life before farming. The finds show Mesolithic hunter-fisher-gatherers moved brown trout into mountain lakes around 5000 BCE....

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2026/07/hun

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  5. Ancient social networks helped hunter-gatherers survive in the Caucasus for 30,000 years

    Ancient hunter-gatherers in the southern Caucasus survived by staying connected across large distances, according to a new study. Researchers found that social ties and the sharing of knowledge played a major part in helping small groups endure tens of thousands of years of environmental change...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2026/06/soc

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  6. 5,500-year-old plague outbreak killed Siberian hunter-gatherers, ancient DNA reveals

    When most people think of plague, they picture medieval Europe, crowded streets, and rats carrying infected fleas. New research suggests the disease was already killing people thousands of years before any of those conditions existed...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2026/06/550

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  7. #Humans Had #Dogs Before They Had #Farming, Ancient #DNA Confirms
    New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that #huntergatherer groups may have acquired dogs from one another.
    The studies provide the first definitive #genetic evidence that dogs existed during the #Paleolithic period, before humans developed #agriculture.
    nytimes.com/2026/03/25/science
    archive.ph/7SqWh

  8. Ancient Finnish graves reveal how ochre signaled identity and social networks

    About 5,500 to 6,000 years ago, hunter-fisher-gatherers lived across what is now Finland. These communities, known to archaeologists as the Typical Comb Ware culture, built semi-subterranean houses, traveled along waterways, and relied on fishing, hunting, and small-scale plant use. They...

    More info: archaeologymag.com/2026/01/fin

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  9. How ancient hunter-gatherer DNA could unlock the secrets of living to 100

    A recent genetic study reveals part of the secret of exceptional longevity in Italy and finds that this may lie deep in the prehistoric past of the European continent...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/12/hun

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  10. Scientists redate Ukraine’s mammoth-bone structures, uncovering Ice Age survival tactics

    Across the plains of what is now Ukraine, long before agriculture had revolutionized human life, groups of hunter-gatherers encountered winters so extreme that the only ways to survive required uncommon ingenuity...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/11/mam

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  11. Genetic study shows dogs traveled with humans across Eurasia for 11,000 years

    For tens of thousands of years, dogs have been in symbiosis with people across the vast range of Eurasia, but new genetic findings indicate that their history was tied to human migrations more closely than previously known...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/11/dog

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  12. 📽️ 🍿 Prochainement, une projection de 3 films de recherche, réalisés par des membres du réseau RUSHS, avec pour sujet commun la mission de filmer un terrain.

    🗓️ Mercredi 26 novembre à 18h
    📍 Institut des systèmes complexes de Paris Île-de-France (ISC-PIF), 113, rue Nationale, Paris 13e

    Venez ainsi découvrir :
    - « Alaska, le sol se dérobe » (9 minutes, 2024), réalisé par Sonia Collavizza (CNRS Images) ;
    - « Devenir sédentaire » (14 minutes, 2024), réalisé par Paul Rambaud (MSH Mondes) ;
    - « LEALula, L'écologie linguistique d'une oasis en mutation » (27 minutes, 2025), réalisé par Céline Ferlita (UAR ARDIS).

    Participation gratuite sur inscription : iscpif.fr/projection-rushs-25/

    Projection en partenariat avec la MSH Monde, ARDIS (CNRS) et l’ISC-PIF.

    @cnrs @cnrsshs @CNRS_INSU @reseaurushs @iscpif @canal_u @lpg_lab @fannybocquentin @darcheogaussein @msh_mondes @umr8068 @shs @mate_shs_cnrs @linguistique

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  13. 9,000-year-old workshop discovery in Senegal reveals life of West Africa’s last hunter-gatherers

    Archaeologists have found rare remains of West Africa’s last hunter-gatherer communities, offering a new glimpse into the lives and sustenance of these people and their circumstances from 9,000 years ago...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/09/900

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  14. Hunter-gatherers made this?! 🤯🤔

    What really puzzles me is the disbelief that hunter-gatherers somehow could be capable of cultural achievements.

    Does this come from an outdated idea equalling #HunterGatherer with #primitive?

    🧵 A fundmental misunderstanding ...

  15. Oldest whale bone tools discovered in Europe reveal Stone Age humans used marine resources 20,000 years ago

    A recent study has revealed that humans living on the Atlantic coast of modern-day France and Spain were crafting tools from whale bones as far back as 20,000 years ago—much earlier than previously thought...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/05/old

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  16. 17,000-year-old skeleton reveals earliest evidence of Stone Age ambush and human conflict

    In a recent discovery revealing one of humanity’s earliest known episodes of conflict, researchers have uncovered evidence that a young man buried nearly 17,000 years ago in what is now northern Italy was killed in a violent ambush...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/05/ske

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  17. Congrats to FAL's McKenna Litynski for winning the Wyoming Archaeology Society's Mary Lou Larson Best Student Paper Award for her work titled, "Ethnographic meta-analysis shows that thermoregulation activities predict needle and awl use in North America." Congrats also to Ann Stephens who won the Best Poster Award for her study titled, "Evaluating the Role of Subsistence in Rock Art Placement: A Case Study from the Bighorn Basin." #archaeology #huntergatherer