As regular readers of this blog know, I have in previous posts commented on hunter-gatherers' playfulness; their playful religious practices; their playful approach toward productive work; their ...

More than 4,500 years ago, while the first agricultural societies were developing in other parts of Europe, on the coasts and islands of the Baltic Sea, northeast of what is now Stockholm (Sweden), a ...

So you're not a "10" in every which way. But you're probably pretty spectacular in some way, and definitely good enough in most areas of life. If ever there were a time to stop beating yourself up for ...

In the distant past sugar and fat were rare and prized, so humans evolved a strong drive to consume them whenever they were available. Now supermarket shelves explode with Twinkies and Doritos, ...

On Younger Dryas climate change as a causal determinate of prehistoric hunter-gatherer culture change / Metin I. Eren -- Climate, technology, and society during the terminal Pleistocene period in ...

The International Meeting "The Chinchorro Culture from a Comparative Perspective", took place in Arica, Chile, 5-8 January, 2010. As a result of this meeting the World Heritage Centre is preparing a ...

Hunter-gatherers took shelter from the ice age in Southwestern Europe, but were replaced on the Italian peninsula according to two new studies, published in Nature and Nature Ecology & Evolution today ...

Researchers scrutinized the genomes of hundreds of Ice Age hunter-gatherers from across Eurasia and found that many people stayed in southern Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum, the coldest part ...

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Finnish prehistoric rock paintings (5000–1500 BCE) on the cliffs rising directly from the lakes are acoustically special environments. When the lake levels have remained unchanged, these extremely ...