Early humans ate carbs and processed food 780,000 years ago, Israel site shows
"Analysis of basalt tools from the Hula Valley shows that Stone Age humans gathered, extracted, and crushed starches from acorns, cereals, legumes, and aquatic plants."
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Next, Egypt is believed to have migrated to Israel around 23,000 years ago. Then, Israel is believed to have migrated to North Africa 15,000 years ago. damienmarieathope.com/2025/06/hunt...
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Wild Cereal Consumption in Iran around 80,000 to 30,000 years ago, then spread out from there, going west to Italy and Syria by at least 30,000 years ago. As well as south to Egypt at least 30,000 years ago.
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I have addressed this in several of my videos and will be addressing it in my recorded video I am doing today on the Old Copper Culture.
blurring the line between foraging and farming.
Storage and Surplus: The ability to store food (e.g., smoked salmon) created wealth that could be used for prestige economies and feasting.
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Sedentism: Stable, high-yield environments (like coastlines) allowed for permanent settlements and large-scale villages.
Resource Management: Indigenous groups, such as those in the Pacific Northwest, managed "wild" resources through clam gardens and aquaculture,
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and egalitarian. Current research challenges this "simplicity" by highlighting several traits of "complex" foragers.
Permanent Inequality: Many groups maintained rigid social classes and permanent hierarchies long before European contact or the adoption of farming.
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societies achieved high population densities and political integration by managing "wild" resources with sophisticated technology.
Rethinking Simplicity vs. Complexity
Traditional models, such as the 1968 Man the Hunter volume, defined hunter-gatherers as small, mobile,
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AI Overview: Modern anthropology is shifting away from the "agricentric" view that social complexity—defined by hierarchies, sedentism, and inequality—can only arise through agriculture. The concept of Complex Hunter-Fisher-Gatherers recognizes that many non-agrarian
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Rethinking Hunter-Gatherer Conceptions of Simplicity and Grasping How Some Were Complex Hunter/Fisher-Gatherers
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AI Overview: Pseudoarchaeology distorts the understanding of hunter-gatherers by misrepresenting them as inherently simple or primitive, often to fuel narratives about "lost civilizations" or advanced ancient knowledge.
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Rethinking Hunter-Gatherer Conceptions of Simplicity and Grasping How Some Were Complex Hunter/Fisher-Gatherers
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#4 Rethinking Hunter-Gatherer Ideas of Simplicity and Understanding Complex Hunter/Fisher-Gatherers
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#3 Rethinking Hunter-Gatherer Ideas of Simplicity and Understanding Complex Hunter/Fisher-Gatherers
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#2 Rethinking Hunter-Gatherer Ideas of Simplicity and Understanding Complex Hunter/Fisher-Gatherers
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#1 Rethinking Hunter-Gatherer Ideas of Simplicity and Understanding Complex Hunter/Fisher-Gatherers
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Hunter-gatherer mobility patterns influence?
"Double Morphology": Some groups shift between different structures, operating in small, more patriarchal bands during the summer and joining into larger, more egalitarian groups in the winter. share.google/fGyHdHfsTTBl...
Trump is bad for jobs!
Employers cut 92,000 jobs in February, the Labor Department reported on Friday, and the unemployment rate rose to 4.4 percent.
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
Gender Revolution: the real role of ancient women
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Stone Age woman was buried like a man, revealing flexible gender roles 7,000 years ago in Hungary
"125 skeletons from two Neolithic cemeteries in Hungary reveal that men and women had clear gender roles — but sometimes those roles were fluid."
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
Kristi Noem’s firing couldn’t happen fast enough. But unless the policy of terrorizing our immigrant communities changes, I’m not voting to give them a penny.
Chatting prehistory/history, religion, and mythology with Dylan Violette (CopperViolette)
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"Ancient board game found in Southern Russia, believed to be cultural connections between Mesopotamia and the Eurasian steppe during the fourth millennium BCE."
www.heritagedaily.com/2026/03/boar...
Ancient genomes provide insight into the Paleolithic-to-Neolithic transition in northern East Asia
www.cell.com/current-biol...
