Hunter-gatherer Pygmies from Central Africa are described as being extremely mobile. Using neutral genetic markers and population genetics theory, we explored the dispersal behaviour of the Baka Pygmies from Cameroon, one of the largest Pygmy populations in Central Africa. We found a strong correlation between genetic and geographical distances: a pattern of isolation by distance arising from l...

The Sacrum is important for body stability, attachment of the lower limbs and protection pelvic organs. This bone may be affected by congenital, degenerative or multifactorial pathologies. aim present study to analyze sacral lesions in a well-preserved sample remains Southern Patagonian hunter-gatherers possible influences temporal-spatial lifestyle variables, with special attention given effec...

Smith (1998) uses the relationship between Maasai pastoralists and so-called Dorobo hunter-gatherers in East Africa as part of a framework for understanding archaeological finds on the Vredenberg Peninsula in South Africa. We argue that this relationship may be less marked by subservience, hierarchy, marginalization, and dependence than Smith’s sources indicate, and we explore the implications ...

Population changes for hunter-gatherers are modeled on the basis of nutritional intake, which is determined using an optimal foraging model based upon the optimization technique of linear programming. The population model not only demonstrates how hunter-gatherer demography changes with nutrition, but also shows how their density influences food abundance in the environment which in turn affect...

The occurrence of polygynous marriage in hunter-gatherer societies, which do not accumulate wealth, remains largely unexplored since resource availability is dependent on male hunting capacity and limited by the lack of storage. Hunter-gatherer societies offer the greatest insight in to human evolution since they represent the majority of our species' evolutionary history. In order to elucidate...

Pour une publication sur Épisciences. Sutton Peter & Walshe Keryn, 2021, Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 264 p. (2014), a book written by Bruce Pascoe, argues for drastic revision of the vision Aboriginal peoples at time colonisation Australia. Traditionally presented as nomadic hunter-gatherers, they were in fact most part villagers ...