From Tanzania to the lab: hunting with hunter-gatherers reveals how periods of feast and famine can actually trigger a system of conservation & repair.

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Neolithic camp, what-is-now Serbia

Ancient Finnish graves reveal how ochre signaled identity and social networks

About 5,500 to 6,000 years ago, hunter-fisher-gatherers lived across what is now Finland. These communities, known to archaeologists as the Typical Comb Ware culture, built semi-subterranean houses, traveled along waterways, and relied on fishing, hunting, and small-scale plant use. They...

More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/01/finnish-graves-ochre-signaled-identity/

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Context: The Late Bronze Age collapse was a sudden systemic failure where major empires like the Hittites and Mycenaeans fell apart due to a mix of invasions, climate change, and trade disruptions. While the Sea Peoples are often blamed for the raids, the real cause was likely a perfect storm of disasters that broke the ancient world’s interconnected economy.

How ancient hunter-gatherer DNA could unlock the secrets of living to 100

A recent genetic study reveals part of the secret of exceptional longevity in Italy and finds that this may lie deep in the prehistoric past of the European continent...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/12/hunter-gatherer-dna-and-secrets-to-living-100/

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We really ♥️ this piece from John Hawks on humans looking at the stars, especially how he picks up African #huntergatherer cosmologies on the link of the #Moon to #Menstruation 🩸

Right now I'm involved in one of the MOST important papers of my life with Hadza hunter-gatherer experts on Hadza beliefs and practice around menstruation, hunting and the moon.

The key here is no one understands Hadza #Epeme--their moon-scheduled ritual for healing and good hunting--unless they also understand menstrual beliefs and practice.

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https://www.johnhawks.net/p/when-did-our-ancestors-start-looking-up-to-the-stars

When did our ancestors start looking up to the stars?

Changes in the sky have been important to peoples throughout the world. That connection may go back much further than our species.

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Scientists redate Ukraine’s mammoth-bone structures, uncovering Ice Age survival tactics

Across the plains of what is now Ukraine, long before agriculture had revolutionized human life, groups of hunter-gatherers encountered winters so extreme that the only ways to survive required uncommon ingenuity...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/11/mammoth-bone-shelters-in-ukraine/

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Original affluent society: Anthropologist's view that hunter-gatherer societies were affluent, that people had everything they needed to live well
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Original affluent society - Wikipedia

Genetic study shows dogs traveled with humans across Eurasia for 11,000 years

For tens of thousands of years, dogs have been in symbiosis with people across the vast range of Eurasia, but new genetic findings indicate that their history was tied to human migrations more closely than previously known...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/11/dogs-traveled-with-humans-across-eurasia/

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From Tanzania to the lab: hunting with hunter-gatherers reveals how periods of feast and famine can actually trigger a system of conservation & repair.

Follow @biohackingpathway for more

#HunterGatherer #Tanzania #FastingBenefits #CellularRepair #Mitochondria #BloodSugarControl #InflammationReduction #WellnessJourney