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Stable isotope chemistry reveals plant-dominant diet among early foragers on the Andean
Altiplano, 9.0–6.5 cal. ka Jan 24, 2024 ‖ Current models of early human subsistence economies suggest a focus
on large mammal hunting. To evaluate this hypothesis, we examine human bone stable
isotope chemistry of 24 individuals from the early Holocene sites of Wilamaya Patjxa
(9.0–8.7 cal. ka) and Soro Mik’aya Patjxa (8.0–6.5 cal. ka) located at 3800 meters
above sea level on the Andean Altiplano, Peru.
Mining the Past: Anthropology Professors Uncover Wyoming's First Coal Mining TownWinter 2024 ‖ What if you could open a time capsule left by Wyoming's first coal miners?
In a way, that's exactly what University of Wyoming Department of Anthropology Associate
Professors Alexandra Kelly and Jason Toohey are doing in Carbon City, Wyoming's first
coal mining town, which was established in1868 near Medicine Bow.
Men are hunters, women are gatherers. That was the assumption. A new study upends
it.July 1, 2023 ‖ For decades, scientists have believed that early humans had a division
of labor: Men generally did the hunting and women did the gathering. And this view
hasn't been limited to academics. It's often been used to make the case that men and
women today should stick to the supposedly "natural" roles that early human society
reveals.
