And they say the differences may have evolved millions of years ago when early humans became hunter gatherers.
The idea of a religious monument built by hunter-gatherers contradicts most of what we thought we knew about religious monuments and about hunter-gatherers.
Research on the few remaining groups of hunter-gatherers in the modern world revealed another facet: far from leading exhausting lives, hunter- gatherers had far more leisure time than their worn-out farming neighbours and seemed relatively well fed.
The region is inhabited mostly by the Quichua and Ashuar, who are primarily hunter-gatherers.
Apparently hunter and gatherers think a god should know how to provide for himself.
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So far, says Youngsuk Chi of Elsevier, publishers have behaved a bit like hunter-gatherers of research.
Hunter-gatherers usually only had to work a few hours a day at subsistence needs.
The drying and cooling of the Younger Dryas adversely affected the food supply of hunter-gatherers.
Taking the long view, I'm thankful that we're no longer hunter-gatherers, which has certainly freed up some time.
Perhaps most important, though were five mummified Unangan hunter-gatherers from the Aleutian Islands in the North Pacific ocean.
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And the equation between beer and civilization is very clear for the Sumerians because previously they were hunter-gatherers.
Schmidt sees no continuity between the Neolithic hunter-gatherers and any more recent culture.
In the name of the tsar, they demanded pelts as yasak (tribute) from reindeer herders, steppes nomads and hunter-gatherers.
Kenyan Ogiek hunter-gatherers claim to have been expelled from their Mau forest after a UN REDD pilot project was launched there.
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The Hadza of Tanzania, a remote group of hunter-gatherers, showed a stronger preference for symmetry than people in the United Kingdom.
Mr Wilkinson and Ms Pickett suggest that equal societies fare better because humans evolved in small groups of hunter-gatherers who shared food.
The calorie intake of the opportunistic hunter-gatherers was more than twice as high as that of the subsistence farmers who replaced them.
However, it is known from the study of modern hunter-gatherers, and inferred from archaeological evidence about ancient ones, that neighbouring tribes are often hostile.
Deriving strength from their large, poorly nourished numbers, the farmers gradually killed off most of the hunter-gatherers and drove the rest from their land.
Studies of Kalahari Bushmen and other nomadic groups show that hunter-gatherers, even in the most inhospitable landscapes, typically spend less than twenty hours a week obtaining food.
Hunter-gatherers, he argues, did not much need a thrifty gene.
She conjures millions of years of human prehistory: small groups of hunter-gatherers wandering the savanna, and then congregating a few times a year at this or that watering hole.
Hunter-gatherers are traditionally believed to have lacked complex symbolic systems, social hierarchies, and the division of labor, three things you probably need before you can build a twenty-two-acre megalithic temple.
Under that theory, hunter-gatherers in Europe would have learned about new farming techniques from the originators in the Near East and switched over on their own to the new lifestyle.
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That peasants (and since Neolithic times the vast majority of humanity has been peasantry) had it worse than hunter-gatherers has been the accepted view of archaeologists for more than a generation.
Even if a plausible-sounding story can be told about how some piece of behavior would have helped early hunter-gatherers survive and reproduce, it may well have become established earlier and for different reasons.
Nearby panels explain that Magdalenian Woman was about 30 years old when she died, was part of a sophisticated nomadic society of hunter-gatherers who followed the animal migrations, and ate a pretty healthful and plentiful diet.
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Genetic analysis led by a team at Sweden's Uppsala University found that the woman closely resembled modern-day Southern Europeans and had many genetic differences from three hunter-gatherers living at the same time in Sweden and buried nearby.
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On the other hand, it brought us fewer homicides (one of the main causes of death for hunter-gatherers), a sense of spirituality, refuge from the uncertainties of the wandering life, and the leisure to develop science and art.
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