The amputation happened when the individual was perhaps 12 years old, the skeleton indicates. Gone is the lower portion of the left leg. And somehow, the individual survived the surgical procedure — a ...

The quality of relationships and the social organization of a society, influence the transfer of valuable resources not only ...

A hunter-gatherer society in Siberia built one of the oldest fortified settlements 8,000 years ago. The fortress defies expectations because it's one of the oldest found that hunter-gatherers built.

There is a great deal of attention in modern societies to inequality and the social problems it causes. Often inequality is considered to be the unavoidable consequence of how society operates in many ...

If you visit the Ju/’hoansi people of northeast Namibia and northwest Botswana, you will see families that make a living from a mixture of foraging, government aid, selling crafts and other ventures.

Excavations in a cave in Morocco have revealed early evidence of tooth decay in a nut-harvesting hunter-gatherer society, according to a new study (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ...

(CNN) — Mothers in the distant past may have had much more support than they do today, according to a study of an isolated community in the Republic of Congo that practices a hunter-gatherer lifestyle ...

Fred Ngusilo stoops to pick up a leather pouch, once used to collect honey, and a discarded shoe from the Mau forest floor, painful reminders that his Ogiek hunter-gatherer community once quietly ...

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