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23 September 2007

In the News . . .

• Earliest evidence of human ancestors hunting and scavenging -- Past Horizons (10 May 2013)
  
  
• Earliest Archaeological Evidence of Persistent Hominin Carnivory -- PLoS ONE (25 April 2013)
  
  
• Did Overhunting Lead to Domestication? -- Past Horizons (11 February 2013)
  
  
• Prehistoric Skeletons Reveal First Sicilians Avoided Seafood -- LiveScience (28 November 2012)
  
  
• Origin and Diet of the Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers on the Mediterranean Island of Favignana (Ègadi Islands, Sicily) -- PLoS ONE (28 November 2012)
  
  
• Eating Meat Made Us Human, Suggests New Skull Fossil -- LiveScience (03 October 2012)
  
  
• Earliest Porotic Hyperostosis on a 1.5-Million-Year-Old Hominin, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania -- PLoS ONE (03 October 2012)
  
  
• Anthropologist Finds Evidence of Hominin Meat Eating 1.5 Million Years Ago: Eating Meat May Have 'Made Us Human' -- Science Daily (03 October 2012)
  
  
• Humans Hunted for Meat 2 Million Years Ago -- Guardian (22 September 2012)
  
  
• Skilled hunters 300,000 years ago -- Past Horizons (17 September 2012)
  
  
• Skilled Hunters 300,000 Years Ago -- ScienceDaily (17 September 2012)
  
  
• Foraging Baboons Are Picky Punters -- EurekAlert (13 September 2012)
  
  
• Men and Women Really Do See Things Differently -- National Geographic News (07 September 2012)
  
  
• Genome sequences of Africa’s hunter-gatherers analysed -- Past Horizons (29 July 2012)
  
  
• Genetic Data and Fossil Evidence Tell Differing Tales of Human Origins -- New York Times (26 July 2012)
  
  
• Hunter gatherer clue to obesity -- BBC News (25 July 2012)
  
  
• Office Workers Burn as Many Calories as Hunter Gatherers -- Telegraph (25 July 2012)
  
  
• Dental calculus provides surprise in early hominin diet -- Past Horizons (07 July 2012)
  
  
• Early human ancestor chewed bark -- BBC News (27 June 2012)
  
  
• Human Ancestors Ate Bark—Food in Teeth Hints at Chimplike Origins -- National Geographic News (27 June 2012)
  
  
• We Evolved To Eat Meat, But How Much Is Too Much? -- NPR (25 June 2012)
  • The Time Traveler's Cookbook: Meat-Lover's Edition-- NPR (25 June 2012)
    
    
• How humans grew fruitful by devouring meat -- MSNBC (18 April 2012)
  
  
• 'Humans killed off Australia's giant beasts' -- BBC News (24 March 2012)
  
  
• First Evidence of Hunting by Prehistoric People in What Is Now Ohio -- Science Daily (01 March 2012)
  
  
• Shelters Date to Stone Age -- Science News (22 February 2012)
  
  
• Interactive Maps Help Pygmy Tribes Fight Back -- New Scientist (21 February 2012)
  
  
• No Omnivore’s Dilemma for Alaskan Hunter-Gatherers -- Science (19 February 2012)
  
  
• Ancient Humans as Major Predators in Marine Food Webs -- Science Daily (22 February 2012)
  
  
• Mashco-Piro 'Uncontacted' Peruvian Tribe Pictured -- BBC News (31 January 2012)
  
  
• Why Are people friendly? -- Guardian (27 January 2012)
  
  
• Dawn of Social Networks: Ancestors May Have Formed Ties With Both Kin and Non-Kin Based On Shared Attributes [Hadza] -- ScienceDaily (25 January 2012)
  
  

• Aboriginal Studies WWW Virtual Library -- T. Matthew Ciolek
  
  
• African Bushmen Creation Myth -- Brian McCarthy
  
  
• African Starlore -- South African Astronomical Observator
  
  
• ANCIENT DNA AND HUMAN ORIGINS -- South African National Bioinformatics Institute
  
  
• Ancient Underwater Camps, Caribou Traps in Great Lake? -- National Geographic News (8 June 2009)
  
  
• Archaeologists Find Ancient Weapon In Melting Ice Patch -- Discovery News (02 July 2010)
  
  
• Art of Being Tuareg: Sahara Nomads in a Modern World -- Natinal Museum of African Arts
  
  
• atlatl
  
  
• Beahrs, Andrew. Twain's Feast: Searching for America's Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens, NY: Penguin, 2010.
  
  
• Breaking the Mould? Exhibiting Khoisan in Southern African museums -- Paul Lane
  
  
• "Bushmen's heads found in British museum" -- Daily Mail and Guardian
  
  
• "Bushmen" -- National Geographic
  
  
• ‘By What Authority?’ Presentations of the Khoisan in South African English Poetry -- Annie Gagiano

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• Canadian University Service Oversea (CUSO) Proposal -- Nigel Crawhall
  
  
• Classifying 'Clicks' In African Languages To Clear Up 100-year-old Mystery -- ScienceDaily (16 July 2009)
  
  
• Dolphin Rescue in Brazil [video]
  
  
• Early Human Hunters Had Fewer Meat-sharing Rituals -- ScienceDaily (12 August 2009)
  
  
• Early Humans Began in Southern Africa, Study Suggests -- BBCNews (08 March 2011)
  
  
• Feminism in Namibia -- PENDUKA
  
  
• Forager Simulation Game -- Brian D. Jones
  
  
• Friends to Count On [community size] -- Guardian (25 April 2011)
  
  
• Gazelles Caught in Ancient Syrian 'Killing Zones' -- BBCNews (19 April 2011)
  
  
• Heritage: History -- Eddie Koch
  
  
• History of the Khoisan / San / Bushmen and their Paintings -- Rock Art Africa
  
  
• HOME OF THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN SAN -- The Working Group of Indigenous Minorities in Southern Africa
  
  
• Human Ancestors Hunted by Prehistoric Beasts -- Discovery News (12 October 2010)
  
  
• Human Ancestors: More Gatherers Than Hunters? -- EurekAlert (11/12/07)
  
  
• Human-Made Global Warming Started With Ancient Hunters -- ScienceDaily (01 July 2010)
  
  
• Humans' Critical Ability to Throw Long Distances Aided by an Illusion -- EurekAlert (24 January 2011)
  
  
• Humans 'left Africa much earlier' -- BBCNews (27 January 2011)
  
  
• Hunter-Gatherer Bibliography -- James Helmer
  
  
• Hunter-gatherers in southern Africa: Introduction -- South Africa Museum
  
  
• Hunters and Gatherers The Khoisan People of South Africa -- The SA Education Labyrinth
  
  
• Hunters Speeding Up Evolution of Trophy Prey? -- National Geographic News (12 January 2009)
  
  
• Hunting and Gathering Societies -- The Hyper-Soc Program
  
  
• Hunting and Gathering Societies -- SocioSam
  
  
• Hunting around the world -- Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

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• Images
  • "Bushmen Hottentots armed for an expedition" by Samuel Daniell -- South African Education Labyrinth
    
    
• Improbable Research: Of Wolves and Men -- Guardian (25 July 2011)
  
  
• Ju/wasi: Bushmen of the Kalahari -- Peabody Museum
  
  
• Kids Share, Chimps Stash -- ScienceNews (22 July 2011)
  
  
• The Khoisan -- Encounter South Africa
  
  
• Khoisan Hunter-gatherers and Pastoralists in southern Africa -- South Africa Museum
  
  
• The Khoisan people of South Africa have achieved a defining moment in that country's history -- Your dot com for Africa
  
  
• !Kung San ("Bushmen") of the Kalahari
  
  
  • !Kung San Camps -- Tom Abel
  • !Kung San Family Level Foragers -- Tom Abel
  • !Kung San Benchmark (200 sq mi) -- Tom Abel
  • Ju/'hoansi (!Kung San) Kin Terms -- Brian Schwimmer
    
    
• Lake Huron reveals a prehistoric past -- Past Horizons (16 December 2011)
  
  
• language
  
  
  • Khoisan language, Hatsa -- ETHNOLOGUE
  • Khoisan languages -- Harald Vajkonny
  • A classificatory list of Khoesaan language and ethnic names -- Göteborg University

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• The Mbarakwengo Bushmen -- Stanley Dickard
  
  
• Meat, Fire And The Evolution Of Man -- NPR (02 August 2010)
  
  
• Meat vs. Potatoes: What Our Chimp Ancestors Liked -- LiveScience (11/13/07)
  
  
• Megafauna Extinctions Not Entirely Humans' Fault -- Wired (29 September 2009)
  
  
• Mysterious Desert Lines Were Animal Traps -- Discovery News (20 April 2010)
  
  
• Namibia’s earliest inhabitants -- AFRICA INSITES
  
  
• Neanderthal Women Joined Men in the Hunt -- The New York Times (5 December 2006)
  
  
• "The Original Affluent Society" -- by Marshall Sahlins
  
  
  • “The Original Affluent Society” Critical Assessment -- Wilson
    
    
• People Steal Meat from Wild Lions -- BBC News (24 July 2009)
  
  
• Pygmies -- Luis Devin
  
  
• Research Shows Autism May Have Had Advantages for Hunter-Gatherers -- Past Horizons (07 June 2011)
  
  
• San Notes -- Court Smith
  
  
  • Bushmanland -- suedafrika.net Travel Guide Homepage
  • Les Bushmen De Nambia -- Emmanuelle Olivier
  • San/Bushmen Rock Art Gallery -- Battlefields
  • The African San -- The Kalahari Peoples Fund
    
    
• Shopping styles of men and women all down to evolution, claim scientists: The reason women love to spend hours browsing in shops while men prefer to be in and out of the high street in minutes is down to their hunter-gathering past, claim scientists -- Richard Alleyne, Telegraph.co.uk
  
  
• Siberians Raided Rodent Caches for Food -- National Geographic News (18 January 2011)
  
  
• South Africa West Coast History: The Forgotten People -- GuriQua
  
  
• Sting in the Tail of Farming Revolution [an interview with Dr Spencer Wells, re Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization (NY: Random House, 2010) -- BBC News (07 June 2010)
  
  
• Stone Age Campers Set Up Separate Activity Areas -- ScienceNews (17 December 2009)
  
  
• Survival for Tribal Peoples: Gana and Bushmen
  
  
• Top 100 Stories of 2009 #95: Hidden Caribou-Hunting Civilization Found Under Lake Huron -- Discover (17 December 2009)
  
  
• Toussaint-Samat, Maguelonne. A History of Food. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons/Blackwell 2009.
  

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• unity in diversity -- ThinkQuest
  
  
• Urban foragers wander around the city in search of food, communion, and conversation -- Scout Report, Vol. 15 No. 30 (31 July 2009)
  
  
• Van Der Post, Laurens. First Catch Your Elan:A Taste of Africa. London: Hogarth, 1978.
  
  
• videos
  
  
  • FILMS ON THE SAN OF SOUTHERN AFRICA -- The Working Group of Indigenous Minorities in Southern Africa
  • The Hunters
  • N!ai, the Story of a !Kung Woman
    
    
• What We Can Learn from Our Hunter-Gatherer Ancestors -- Guardian (30 September 2010)
  
  
• When the woolly mammoth ran out, early man turned to roasted vegetables -- Los Angeles Times (27 December 2008)
  
  
• Wisdom of Grandparents Helped Rise of Prehistoric Man -- Guardian (24 July 2011)
  
  

Videos

• Vanishing Cultures: Bushmen Of The Kalahari -- snagfilms.com

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Woman and Blueberries.
Creator: Patrick DesJarlait (1912-1972)
Art Collection, Watercolor, 1971
Visual Resources Database
Minnesota Historical Society
Location No. AV1979.211 Negative No. 3061

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Paul Buffalo Meditating Wild Rice Beds

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Indian spearing fish.
Creator: Roland W. Reed
Photograph Collection, Postcard, 1925
Visual Resources Database
Minnesota Historical Society
Location No. E97.32F r9 Negative No. 62678