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The Historical Atlas of World Mythology is a multi-volume series of books by Joseph Campbell that traces developments in humankind's mythological symbols and stories from pre-history forward. Campbell is perhaps best known as a comparativist who focused on universal themes and motifs in human culture.
Pygmy hunter-gatherers in the Congo Basin in August 2014. A hunter-gatherer or forager is a human living in a community, or according to an ancestrally derived lifestyle, in which most or all food is obtained by foraging, [1] [2] that is, by gathering food from local naturally occurring sources, especially wild edible plants but also insects, fungi, honey, bird eggs, or anything safe to eat ...
At the time hunter-gatherers settled down at Ohalo II, the Sea of Galilee was newly formed and may have been attractive to many bands of people. [6] After Ohalo II had been occupied for a relatively short amount of time, probably only a few generations, the village burned to the ground. [4] Whether the burning was intentional or accidental is ...
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In archaeogenetics, western hunter-gatherer (WHG, also known as west European hunter-gatherer, western European hunter-gatherer or Oberkassel cluster) (c. 15,000~5,000 BP) is a distinct ancestral component of modern Europeans, representing descent from a population of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers who scattered over western, southern and central Europe, from the British Isles in the west to the ...
It is attributed to hunter-gatherer societies of the region whose technological variability over time is poorly understood. [2] In 2016, a rock shelter was identified in Yunnan , China, 40 km from the border with Myanmar , where artifacts belonging to the Hoabinhian technocomplex were recognized, dating from 41,500 BCE.
Map of early human migrations based on the Out of Africa theory; figures are in thousands of years ago (kya). [1]The peopling of the Americas began when Paleolithic hunter-gatherers (Paleo-Indians) entered North America from the North Asian Mammoth steppe via the Beringia land bridge, which had formed between northeastern Siberia and western Alaska due to the lowering of sea level during the ...
West African hunter-gatherers, [1] West African foragers, [2] or West African pygmies [3] dwelled in western Central Africa earlier than 32,000 BP [4] and dwelled in West Africa between 16,000 BP and 12,000 BP [5] until as late as 1000 BP [1] or some period of time after 1500 CE. [6]