Center for the Human Past
Hunter-Gatherers
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Mini-Seminar: Plant gatherers, plant managers or agriculturalists? Investigating people-plant relationships in early prehistory.
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Read more →: Mini-Seminar: Plant gatherers, plant managers or agriculturalists? Investigating people-plant relationships in early prehistory.Abstract What plant foods did hunter-gatherers in N-W Europe eat? Was the way hunter-gatherers and farmers used and interacted with plants fundamentally different? How did prehistoric farmers grow their crops? The scale and nature of human-plant interactions and plant subsistence strategies in early prehistory have been rigorously debated. Although past understandings of prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies…
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Carina Schlebusch’s current research—in a nutshell
Read more →: Carina Schlebusch’s current research—in a nutshellCarina Schlebusch is combining archaeology, genetics and biochemistry with the aim of discovering how human genes have adapted to changing lifestyles over thousands of years. Prehistoric DNA from skeletal remains in Africa can provide answers to questions about diet, disease and survival, and perhaps even offer clues about humanity’s future health. The goal now is…
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Talks of the Past Open Seminar: Hunter-gatherer ancestry in Zambian BaTwa populations – Genetics, archaeology and discussion of results with study participants
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Read more →: Talks of the Past Open Seminar: Hunter-gatherer ancestry in Zambian BaTwa populations – Genetics, archaeology and discussion of results with study participantsAbstract Sub-equatorial Africa is today inhabited predominantly by Bantu-speaking groups of Western African descent, whose ancestors, in many cases, replaced, displaced, or assimilated local hunter-gatherer groups. In eastern Zambia, there is evidence of Bantu-speaking agriculturalists from circa 2000 years ago. Little is known about the genetic affinities of the hunter-gatherers who inhabited the area before…