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FAL's McKenna Litynski finds that clothing, ritual, tattoos, and medical suturing were some of the major motivations for needle technology in Indigenous North America. An important contribution to our understanding of human technology and our species' expansion into diverse climates around the world, published in PLoS ONE:

https://www.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0343888

#archaeology #ethnography #huntergatherers #uwyo

Anthropology.net Mar 5

New research with the Hadza challenges the “noble generosity” model of forager egalitarianism. Equality emerged in experiments only when people could take what they felt was owed — not when they were asked to give. #HunterGatherers #HumanEvolution #BehavioralAnthropology https://www.anthropology.net/p/hadza-hunter-gatherers-share-food

Hadza Hunter-Gatherers Share Food Equally — But Mostly When They Have To

Self-interest, not spontaneous generosity, drives equality among the Hadza of Tanzania

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Anthropology.net Mar 5

Charred residues on 6,000-year-old pottery are revealing prehistoric European “recipes” — guelder rose berries with fish, greens with cyprinids, tubers alongside dairy. Forager cuisine was more intentional than we thought. #Archaeology #Prehistory #HunterGatherers https://www.anthropology.net/p/what-was-actually-in-the-pot

What Was Actually in the Pot

New analysis of charred residues on prehistoric pottery is rewriting what we thought we knew about hunter-gatherer cuisine in Northern and Eastern Europe.

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The Orkney News Feb 23

Ajvide Excavation and the Strength of Kinship Ties

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://theorkneynews.scot/2026/02/23/ajvide-excavation-and-the-strength-of-kinship-ties/

Anthropology.net Feb 18

Ancient DNA from a 5,500-year-old hunter-gatherer cemetery on Gotland shows people buried together were kin, but often second- or third-degree relatives, not parents and children. The Stone Age family was wider than we assumed. #AncientDNA #Archaeogenetics #HunterGatherers https://www.anthropology.net/p/who-gets-buried-together-on-a-stone