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World History: Stone Age Hunter Gatherers
By the end of the Pleistocene, Homo sapiens were the only hominid on earth. They were very nearly uniform in their lifestyles and artifact assemblage, and they spread throughout the world.
Jerf el Ahmar (Syria)
Jerf el Ahmar is 10,000-year-old village located on the Euphrates River in Syria, near several other important PPN a sites. Jerf el Ahmar has evidence of early use of wild barley.
Natufian Sites
Archaeological sites which ate to the Natufian period are located in the ancient Levant.
Göbekli Tepe - Early Cult Center in Turkey
Gobekli Tepe is a massive shrine shared by several different Pre-Pottery Neolithic communities over 11,000 years ago. THis photo essay illustrates the context of the site.
Crescents
Crescents are a type of chipped stone tool made during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene in western North America.
Hoabinhian
The Hoabinhian is the name given to hunter-gatherer groups in Southeast Asia between about 13,000 to 3000 BC.
Complex Hunter-Gatherers
Complex hunter-gatherers, sometimes called affluent foragers, are hunter-gatherers with a broader subsistence base, and a wider range of abilities and technology than is usually included in hunter-gatherer definitions.
Nenets Reindeer Herders Set Up Camp
The documentary film Waking the Baby Mammoth contains a fascinating glimpse into life in a Nenets reindeer herding family. In this set of photos, the nomads set up camp.
Waking the Baby Mammoth
Waking the Baby Mammoth is a documentary produced by National Geographic and first aired in April 2009. The 2 hour video introduces the viewer to the people who discovered, cared for and studied an astoundingly well-preserved 40,000 year old woolly mammoth.
Jomon
A photo essay on what archaeology has discovered about the Jomon as seen at the Sannai Maruyama site
Wadi Hammeh 27 (Jordan)
Wadi Hammeh 27 is a Natufian period site, one of several sites located in Wadi al-Hammeh on the Jordan valley near where a hot spring joins the wadi.
Natufian Period
The Natufian culture is the name given to the sedentary hunter-gatherers living in the Levant region of the near east between about 12,500 and 10,200 years ago.
Hayonim Cave (Israel)
Hayonim Cave is the name of a cave located on the Mediterranean coast of Israel, in a limestone bluff about 250 meters above modern sea level.
Hunter Gatherers - a Definition
Hunter-gatherers hunt game and collect plant foods (called foraging) rather than grow or tend crops.
Later Stone Age Coastal Living and Mega-Middens
The megamiddens of South Africa are enormous heaps of mussel shells, deposited between 3000 and 2000 years ago, along the shore line of the Western Cape province of South Africa, north and west of Cape Town,