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#HunterGatherers Brought #Trout to a Norwegian Mountain #Lake 7,000 Years Ago, the Earliest Known Example of Humans Translocating #Fish
Researchers have long known that the animals were introduced into the region’s high-altitude bodies of water, but they weren’t sure when it happened or whether humans had a hand. Analyses of recently discovered ancient fish traps provide new clues
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hunter-gatherers-brought-trout-to-a-norwegian-mountain-lake-7000-years-ago-the-earliest-known-example-of-humans-translocating-fish-180989167/?shem=dsdf,sharefoc,agadiscoversdl,,sh/x/discover/m1/4

What is the #natural #daily #activitypattern of #Homo #sapiens? And what role does our #social way of #life play in this? Through a comparative study of #primates and extant #human #huntergatherers, D. R. Samson (2026) reconstructs that humans originally led a #cathemeral #lifestyle, meaning they engaged in flexible #sleeppatterns.
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2026.103875

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Le commun avant l’incitation

Une enquête peut donner la parole aux acteurs tout en leur imposant les catégories du chercheur. Chez les Hadza, la réciprocité arrive en tête des motivations déclarées du partage ; mais cela suffit-il à prouver que le partage est un échange entre individus plutôt qu’une norme constitutive du commun ? #Anthropology #Commons #HunterGatherers #EconomicAnthropology #Marxism #PoliticalPhilosophy #CriticalTheory…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2026/08/25/le-commun-avant-lincitation/

25-Aug-2026
#HunterGatherers sleep no longer than we do: review suggests industrialization changed #sleep timing more than duration
A peer-reviewed narrative review in Brain Medicine, led by Dr. Seithikurippu R. Pandi-Perumal, integrates #anthropology, #history, and #phylogenomics to argue that timing and regularity, more than duration, separate modern sleep from ancestral patterns

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1140067

#science #humans

🎣 So let me get this straight, we needed a whole 700-word article to tell us that hunter-gatherers put #fish in a #lake 7000 years ago? 🐟 Apparently, even back then, humanity was already practicing the age-old tradition of meddling with #ecosystems just to keep things interesting. 😂
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2580119-hunter-gatherers-introduced-fish-to-a-mountain-lake-7000-years-ago/ #huntergatherers #history #humor #HackerNews #ngated

Hunter-gatherers introduced fish to a mountain lake 7000 years ago

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2580119-hunter-gatherers-introduced-fish-to-a-mountain-lake-7000-years-ago/

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#HackerNews #huntergatherers #fishmountainlake #archaeology #ancienthistory #environmentalimpact

Hunter-gatherers introduced fish to a mountain lake 7000 years ago.

Many centuries before the advent of agriculture in Norway, ancient people transported fish into mountain lakes to create a source of food, then built wooden traps to catch them.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260719-hunter-gatherers-introduced-fish-to-a-mountain-lake-7000-years-ago?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#HunterGatherers #History #Archaeology #Norway #Science #Fishing

The oldest known #plague #outbreak struck #huntergatherers 5,500 years ago
The find challenges the idea that plague needed dense farming villages to become deadly.
Found at one of four ancient burial sites, the discovery predates the previous oldest signs of plague by several hundred years. It also indicates that hunter-gatherers were at risk from outbreaks of plague many centuries before the invention of farming and settled villages
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/plague-outbreak-oldest-hunter-gatherers
https://archive.ph/Ldpdk

Science Advances editorial discusses how it aims to advance anthropology, highlighting publications that exemplify their mission, including an FAL paper on gendered hunting practice.
https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aeh9319
#archaeology #huntergatherers

Please nerf megafauna

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1945047/please-nerf-megafauna

FAL's McKenna Litynski finds that clothing, ritual, tattoos, and medical suturing were some of the major motivations for needle technology in Indigenous North America. An important contribution to our understanding of human technology and our species' expansion into diverse climates around the world, published in PLoS ONE:

https://www.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0343888

#archaeology #ethnography #huntergatherers #uwyo

New research with the Hadza challenges the “noble generosity” model of forager egalitarianism. Equality emerged in experiments only when people could take what they felt was owed — not when they were asked to give. #HunterGatherers #HumanEvolution #BehavioralAnthropology https://www.anthropology.net/p/hadza-hunter-gatherers-share-food

Charred residues on 6,000-year-old pottery are revealing prehistoric European “recipes” — guelder rose berries with fish, greens with cyprinids, tubers alongside dairy. Forager cuisine was more intentional than we thought. #Archaeology #Prehistory #HunterGatherers https://www.anthropology.net/p/what-was-actually-in-the-pot

Ancient DNA from a 5,500-year-old hunter-gatherer cemetery on Gotland shows people buried together were kin, but often second- or third-degree relatives, not parents and children. The Stone Age family was wider than we assumed. #AncientDNA #Archaeogenetics #HunterGatherers https://www.anthropology.net/p/who-gets-buried-together-on-a-stone

Archaeoethnologica: The Archaeological
Challenge of Gender / O Desafio Arqueológico do Gênero

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Archaeoethnologica: The Archaeological
Challenge of Gender / O Desafio Arqueológico do Gênero

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Archaeoethnologica: The Archaeological
Challenge of Gender / O Desafio Arqueológico do Gênero

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Archaeoethnologica: The Archaeological
Challenge of Gender / O Desafio Arqueológico do Gênero

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Archaeoethnologica: The Archaeological
Challenge of Gender / O Desafio Arqueológico do Gênero

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Archaeoethnologica: Current Swedish Archaeology Nº 32/1

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Archaeoethnologica: Current Swedish Archaeology Nº 32/1

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Archaeoethnologica: Current Swedish Archaeology Nº 32/1

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